git-next/README.md

git-next

Automated and minimal merge-queue ideal for a solo developer (later versions may support teams)

Currently this will mostly for myself when working on projects by myself. I'd like to reduce the overhead of PRs, but still maintain CI verification of each commit/patch set.

The main branch remains the ready-to-deploy version of the project.

I would then have a dev branch where I would do all of my work.

As a commit is added, as long as it matches a conventional commit message and isn't marked as WIP:, the next branch will advance from the current main commit to this next commit where it will be submitted to CI. This may or may not involve a PR. If it passes CI then the main branch will fast-forward to that commit (i.e. to next which should be a single step). The next commit on the dev branch will then be considered.

The application would initially integrate with only with ForegeJo via it's API to interact with the main, next and dev branches and to review the status check results for each commit or PR.

Before:
*1--*2--*3--*4--*5 main/next
                 \--*6--*7--*8--*9 dev
During CI:
*1--*2--*3--*4--*5 main
                 \--*6 next
                     \--*7--*8--*9 dev
After CI passes for *6:
*1--*2--*3--*4--*5--*6 main/next
                     \--*7--*8--*9 dev

The dev branch should never need to rebase onto main as main is only ever advancing along the dev branch as each commit passes CI.

Developing on git-next

Before you start committing, run the just install-hooks command to setup the Git Hooks. Get Just

Design

• CLI to initialise the Repo (e.g. create config file)
• Server that monitors a collection of repos via the Forge APIs

The CLI and the Server could be the same executable taking different commands to decide behaviour.

e.g.

(assuming the command is git-next)

Initialise a repo:

$ git next init

This would create a default configuration file: .git-next.toml.

Initialise a Server:

$ git next server init

This would create a configuration file git-next-server.toml for running the server. It would include details of the repos to be monitored and any credentials to be used.

Start a Server:

$ git next server start

This would start a server using the configuration file in the current directory.