Question

git flow only allows one hotfix branch at any one time. So rather than typing:

git flow hotfix finish hotfix_branch

I’dl like to create an alias that uses the only existing hotfix branch name. Something like the following pseudocode:

[alias]
  fix-done = flow hotfix finish `git_fetch_branch_beginning_with_hotfix`

Can anyone help? Thanks.

Update: I’m using zsh.

Answer 1

This function is more or less extracted from git-flow‘s source code:

finish_current_hotfix_branch ()
{
  local hotfix_prefix=$(git config --get gitflow.prefix.hotfix)
  local hotfix_branches=$(echo "$(git branch --no-color | sed 's/^[* ] //')" | grep "^$hotfix_prefix")
  local first_branch=$(echo ${hotfix_branches} | head -n1)
  first_branch=${first_branch#$hotfix_prefix}
  git flow hotfix finish "$first_branch"
}

Update

It seems like you have to put the entire function in your alias. Not nice, but works:

[alias]
  fix-done ="!_() { p=$(git config --get gitflow.prefix.hotfix); b=$(echo \"$(git branch --no-color | sed 's/^[* ] //')\" | grep \"^$p\"); f=$(echo ${b} | head -n1); f=${f#$p}; git flow hotfix finish \"$f\"; }; _"