Inflight

Inflight finds the ID of your currently started Pivotal Tracker story and adds it to your commit message. The story is located using the Git author's email.

Given you've started a story:

When you're ready to commit:

git commit

The story ID is ready and waiting in your commit message:

# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#       new file:   <% some changes %>
#

[#89688392]

Background

Pivotal Tracker & Github allow you to easily link commits to your tracker stories. When you craft a commit message like this:

My words of wisdom

[#<story-id>]

You'll see this commit linked in the activity of your story:

Installation

1. Download the latest release and place the binary on your path, e.g. /usr/local/bin/inflight

   Alternatively if you have Go installed, run:

   go get github.com/odlp/inflight

2. cd to the repo you'd like to configure.

3. Create a Git prepare commit message hook:

   touch .git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg

4. Edit the hook:

   #!/bin/bash
   
   export TRACKER_API_TOKEN="<your-tracker-api-token>"
   export TRACKER_PROJECT_ID="<your-tracker-project-id>"
   inflight -o "$1"

   Your Pivotal Tracker API key is located in Your Profile. The project ID is visible in the address bar of your browser whilst viewing the project.

5. Make the hook executable:

   chmod +x .git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg

Limitations

• The git author's email must match the email used for Pivotal Tracker.
• If you have more than one story started then the most recently updated story ID will be picked.

Todo

• Add interactive git hook setup