Git Excellence Skill

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides best practices for Git version control, ensuring clean history, effective collaboration, and seamless integration with agile methodologies like BMAD. It helps users avoid common Git pitfalls and maintain a robust codebase.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Branch Strategies: Guidance on standard feature/bugfix branches and BMAD-specific story/epic branches.
• Commit Discipline: Best practices for conventional commits and BMAD-specific commit formats, ensuring clear, atomic changes.
• Workflow Management: Detailed steps for standard feature workflows and BMAD story workflows, from branch creation to pull requests.
• History Management: Techniques for interactive rebase, amending commits, and recovering from mistakes.
• Conflict Resolution: Step-by-step guide for resolving merge and rebase conflicts.
• Use Case: You're working on a new user story in a BMAD project. Use this Skill to create a story/XXX-description branch, make atomic commits with Story-XXX references, and prepare a pull request that links directly to the story file.

Quick Start

Show me how to create a Git branch for a BMAD user story, following the recommended naming convention.