A simple script script to generate a git-flow like branch name and check it out

jira-ticket-title-to-gitflow-branch.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Change this to your name initials
user_initials="ms"

E_BADARGS=65
if [ $# -lt 1 -a $# -gt 3 ]; then
        >&2 echo "Usage: $0 jira_ticket_title [ticket_type_or_branch_prefix=feature] [checkout=1]"
        exit $E_BADARGS
fi


# Get the JIRA ticket title from clipboard and remove the first and last -
branch_name=$(echo $1 | tr  -c '[:alnum:]' '-' | tr -s '-' '-')
branch_name=${branch_name#"-"}
branch_name=${branch_name%"-"}

# Ensure that the branch name has the name of relevant project in it
if [ $(echo "${branch_name}" | grep -q "INTPASS"; echo $?) -ne 0 ]; then
   >&2 echo "Invalid branch name: ${branch_name}"
    exit $E_BADARGS
fi


ticket_type="$2"
# Set default ticket type to feature
if [ "x${ticket_type}" = "x" ]; then
    ticket_type="feature"
fi

# should we checkout the branch name after generating it?
checkout="$3"
if [ "x${checkout}" = "x" ]; then
    checkout=1
fi

# generate qualified branch name.
qualified_branch_name="${ticket_type}/${user_initials}/${branch_name}"

if [ $checkout -eq 1 ]; then
    echo "Checking out branch: ${qualified_branch_name}"
    git checkout -b "${qualified_branch_name}"
else
    echo "Branch name: ${qualified_branch_name}."
    echo "Not checking out"
fi
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