jdforsythe

#!/bin/bash

# "master" is the name of your main branch you'll be comparing to, or you can pass the "parent" branch as an argument
# it compares against the current branch by default, but you can pass a second argument to specify a child branch

# this creates a permanent alias so you can use `git oldest-ancestor` to get the oldest ancestor of the current branch at any time

git config --global alias.oldest-ancestor '!zsh -c '\''diff --old-line-format='' --new-line-format='' <(git rev-list --first-parent "${1:-master}") <(git rev-list --first-parent "${2:-HEAD}") | head -1'\'' -'

brettporter

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'tempfile'
require 'optparse'

def parse_version(text)
  if (text.match(/^\s*<version>\s*(.*?)\s*<\/version>\s*$/))
    $1
  else
    nil