Nix-Git-Cherry-Picker

This small shell script helps cherry-picking commits between two git branches (supposedly used as a nix configuration on two machines).

It does not handle merge conflicts automatically. It will instruct you to do it yourself.

Installation

Nix

In your flake.nix :

nix-git-cherry-picker = {
    url = "github:tomasriveral/nix-git-cherry-picker";
};

Or, if you want to follow the inputs :

nix-git-cherry-picker = {
  url = "github:tomasriveral/nix-git-cherry-picker";
  inputs.flake-utils.follows = "flake-utils";
  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};

You can refer to the package as inputs.nix-git-cherry-picker.packages.${pkgs.system}.default

Manual

git clone https://github.com/tomasriveral/Nix-Git-Cherry-Picker
cd Nix-Git-Cherry-Picker
./ngcp.sh

Usage

For best practices (and to avoid merge conflicts), you should push to your remote before shutting down your machine or running ngcp from another machine.

Usage: ngcp [mode] [options]
Mode:
 pick <commit 1> <commit2> <...>    Cherry-pick commits for the remote branch.
 pull                               Pulls the changes to the local branch.
Options:
  --automatic                       Exit with no changes if merge conflict and instructs the user to pull manually. Use this option for automation.

Configuration

The programs will create a default configuration if the ~/.config/nix-git-cherry-picker/config.json doesn't exist.

{
  "localBranch": "laptop",
  "remoteBranch": "desktop",
  "nixConfigPath": "/home/tomasr/nixos/"
}

localBranch is the git branch on your current machine.

remoteBranch is the git branch on your other machine.

nixConfigPath is the path to your cloned git repository.

Note

This project was primarily designed to handle my nixos configuration and, as such, meets my needs. This means that :

• Even though this project could actually work for any other git project (nixos configuration or not, hosted on github or not), I do not guarantee it will stay like that. I might add a nix-specific feature in the future.
• It only works on two branches. (You could reuse the same branch on multiple machines).

If you want to use this project for other purposes, you are free to open a PR or ask kindly, I might implement (or not) modifications.