av
is a command-line tool that helps you manage your stacked PRs on GitHub. It
allows you to create a PR stacked on top of another PR, and it will
automatically update the dependent PR when the base PR is updated. Read more at
Rethinking code reviews with stacked
PRs.
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- Create a PR that is stacked on another PR.
- Visualize the entire stack of PRs.
- Interactively navigate through the PR stack.
- Rebase the dependent PR when the base PR is updated.
- Remove the merged PRs from the stack.
- Split a PR into multiple PRs.
- Split a commit into multiple commits.
- Reorder the PRs and commits in the stack.
Tip
Complete documentation is available at docs.aviator.co.
Create a new branch and make some changes:
$ av branch feature-1
$ echo "Hello, world!" > hello.txt
$ av commit -A -m "Add hello.txt"
Create a PR:
$ av pr
Create a new branch and make some changes. Create another PR that depends on the previous PR:
$ av branch feature-2
$ echo "Another feature" >> hello.txt
$ av commit -a -m "Update hello.txt"
$ av pr
Visualize the PR stack:
$ av tree
* feature-2 (HEAD)
│ https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/2
│
* feature-1
│ https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1
│
* master
Merge the first PR:
$ gh pr merge feature-1
Sync the stack:
$ av sync
✓ GitHub fetch is done
✓ Restack is done
* ✓ feature-2 f9d85fe
│
* master 7fd1a60
✓ Pushed to GitHub
Following branches do not need a push.
feature-1: PR is already merged.
Following branches are pushed.
feature-2
Remote: dbae4bd Update hello.txt 2024-06-11 16:41:18 -0700 -0700 (2 minutes ago)
Local: f9d85fe Update hello.txt 2024-06-11 16:43:41 -0700 -0700 (7 seconds ago)
PR: https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/2
✓ Deleted the merged branches
Following merged branches are deleted.
feature-1: f2335eec783b54226a7ab90f4af1c9b8309f8b61
av
is available for macOS and Linux. In order to interact with GitHub, av
uses the GitHub API token. If you have GitHub CLI
installed, av
will use the token automatically from the GitHub CLI. It is
recommended to install both.
First, if not already done, install Homebrew.
Then install using Homebrew tap.
brew install gh aviator-co/tap/av
Published as av-cli-bin
in
AUR.
yay av-cli
Add Aviator to your APT repositories.
echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://apt.fury.io/aviator/ /" > \
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/fury.list
And then apt install.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install av
If you'd prefer you can download the .deb
file from the releases page.
apt install ./av_$VERSION_linux_$ARCH.deb
Add the following file /etc/yum.repos.d/fury.repo
.
[fury]
name=Gemfury Private Repo
baseurl=https://yum.fury.io/aviator/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
Run the following command to confirm the configuration is working.
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=fury list available
And then run yum install.
sudo yum install av
If you'd prefer you can download the .rpm
file from the releases page.
rpm -i ./av_$VERSION_linux_$ARCH.rpm
Download the binary from the releases page. Extract the archive and add the executable to your PATH.
-
Set up the GitHub CLI for GitHub authentication:
gh auth login
Or you can create a Personal Access Token as described in the Configuration section.
-
Set up the
av
CLI autocompletion:# Bash source <(av completion bash) # Zsh source <(av completion zsh)
-
Initialize the repository:
av init
brew update
brew upgrade av
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
yum update
Command | Description |
---|---|
av adopt |
Adopt a branch that is not created from av branch . |
av branch |
Create a new child branch from the current branch. |
av commit --amend |
Amend the last commit and rebase the children. |
av pr |
Create or update a PR. |
av reorder |
Reorder the branches. |
av reparent |
Change the parent of the current branch. |
av restack |
Rebase the branches to their parents. |
av split-commit |
Split the last commit. |
av switch |
Check out branches interactively. |
av sync --all |
Fetch and rebase all branches. |
av tree |
Visualize the PRs. |
av
internally keeps tracks of the PRs, their associated branches and their dependent branches.
For each branch, it remembers where the branch started (the base commit of the branch). When
the base branch is updated, av
rebases the dependent branches on top of the
new base branch using the remembered starting point as the merge base.