falco

Sanitary pair and mob programming for the modern age


Use this handy dandy script (in conjunction with a remote meeting tool and a sweet timer) to coordinate driver rotations through git, and bring your remote mob programming sessions back to life!

Install

npm i -g @aptera/falco

Use

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1. Navigate to your project directory in a terminal.
1. If you're not working on master, checkout the branch you'll be using.

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1. Begin the session with falco start. (This will create a -mobbing branch off the working branch, to hold work-in-progress commits during the session.)
1. When it's time to switch to the next driver, falco pass. (This will make a "wip" commit and push it to the -mobbing branch.)

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1. Begin your turn with falco drive. (This will checkout the -mobbing branch and pull down the latest wip commit(s).)
1. When it's time to switch to the next driver, falco pass.

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1. Use falco commit to commit work in progress, squash merge, and push to the original working branch.
2. If you are not the last driver, or if you do not want to merge the session's results, use falco stop to clean up your local workspace and return to the original working branch.