README

DEPRECATED: use feature branches.

git-backup is a utility to backup all Git entities that were not pushed to a remote as Git patches and store them to the specified place.
These are:
* non-staged modifications;
* staged modifications;
* untracked files (if the option is given);
* non-pushed commits on all local branches that track remote branches;
* commits on all local non-tracking branches, that are not contained in any tracking branch (current they are compared only with master);
* all stashes.

REQUIREMENTS:
* Ruby. Tested only under 1.9.3. Don't know if it works on 1.8.7 or other versions.
* Git. And it must be in the PATH.
* RubyGem trollop
* zip native utility, and it also should be in the PATH. You don't need this if you don't wanna use "--zip".

USAGE:
Call git-backup from a Git repository.
  git-backup [OPTIONS] [<output-dir>]
  You may omit <output-dir>, if you define GIT_BACKUP_DIR environment variable
  OPTIONS:
      --quite, -q:   Be quite - no output at all
  --untracked, -u:   Backup untracked files. Note: the path is not preserved, 
                     thus only one of files with the same name is stored.
    --verbose, -v:   Be verbose
        --zip, -z:   Compress the output to a zip-archieve
       --help, -h:   Show this message

EXAMPLE:
  git-backup -zu ~/Dropbox/backup
  Backup unpushed changes from the current repository to ~/Dropbox/backup/gitbackup-<...>.zip, include untracked files.