BranchToTag

Python based script to create git tags for the given branch names.

Recently I had to come up with an easy way to cleanup a Git repository with some 200+ branches, Where we also wanted to archive few branches as tags.

Features

• Create git Tags and delete the tagged branches.
• Delete the given branches without tagging.
• Maintain the history of the script process under clean_up_history.json

How To Use (Changes required in main.py)

1. Set your local repo path

LOCAL_REPO_PATH = "/Users/PycharmProjects/your_local_project_git_folder/"  

2. If you want to create git tags and delete the tagged branches.

if __name__ == '__main__':  
 set_local_repo() 
 branches = ['branch_name_1', branch_name_2 ...] 
 create_tags(branches)````  

3. If you want to just delete some git branches

if __name__ == '__main__':  
 set_local_repo() 
 branches = ['branch_name_1', branch_name_2 ...] 
 delete_branches(branches)```  

4. If you wish to change the prefix of the tag modify this.

TAG_PREFIX = "archive"

Run

main.py  

clean_up_history.json

Either the script is creating tag or deleting a given a branch. It will be recorded in the clean_up_history.json for future reference.

{  
 //name of the branch which are already processed by the script  
 "processed": [],  
 // name of the branch which are deleted 
 "deleted": [], 
 //name of the tags created by the script 
 "tagged": []
 }  

Contributing

Love your input! I wanted to make contributing to this project as easy and transparent as possible, whether it's:
- Reporting a bug
- Discussing the current state of the code
- Submitting a fix

License

MIT License  
  
Copyright (c) 2021 Lingaraj Sankaravelu  
  
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