Git tips: git xpush

I’d recently been suffering from builds failing because people (including myself) had been pushing changes that they hadn’t run tests on, or where un-pulled changes had broken their code.

As we use Maven, there’s a simple solution to this, git aliases.

You can add the following to ~/.gitignore:

[alias]
	xpush = !sh -c 'git pull --no-edit && mvn clean install && git push'

Now, when you do “git xpush” git pulls any new changes down, rebuilds the app (running the tests) and pushes the changes to the repo.