---name: git-workflowdescription: Use when establishing branching strategies, implementing Conventional Commits, creating or reviewing PRs, resolving PR review comments, merging PRs (including CI verification, auto-merge queues, and post-merge cleanup), managing PR review threads, merging PRs with signed commits, handling merge conflicts, verifying a merge didn't silently drop changes, syncing a long-diverged branch (e.g. master into integration), rebasing a long-lived branch onto a moved base or splitting one into several PRs, integrating Git with CI/CD, setting up git hooks (lefthook, captainhook, husky, pre-commit), debugging hook-install failures in git worktrees, or working in a bare-repo plus per-branch-worktree layout, including consolidating a directory that holds both a plain clone and a .bare. The pull-request tooling is GitHub-only; references/pull-request-workflow.md carries the GitLab equivalents. Not for creating releases (use github-release) or diagnosing BLOCKED/won't-merge PRs (use github-project).license: (MIT AND CC-BY-SA-4.0). See LICENSE-MIT and LICENSE-CC-BY-SA-4.0compatibility: Requires git, gh CLI; yq for .spec-cleanup.yml.metadata: author: Netresearch DTT GmbHversion: 1.35.0repository: https://github.com/netresearch/git-workflow-skillallowed-tools: Bash(git:*) Bash(gh:*) Read Write---

Git Workflow Skill

Not Here

Releases: github-release. BLOCKED-PR diagnosis: github-project.

GitHub only. Everything below the branching and commit sections — pr-status.sh, pr-merge.sh, the merge gate, review threads — speaks GitHub GraphQL. For a GitLab merge request the equivalent glab calls are in references/pull-request-workflow.md § GitLab: the same gate with glab.

Critical Rules (Non-Negotiable)

1. No direct push to main — always open a PR.
2. No merge before all threads resolved (references/pull-request-workflow.md).
3. No squash unless asked — preserves atomic commits, signatures, bisection.
4. No "tested/verified/working" without pasted command output — else say so.
5. No edits to installed skill/plugin cache paths (~/.claude/skills/, ~/.claude/plugins/cache/, **/.bare/**) — always the repo worktree, verified by pwd.
6. Force-push only with --force-with-lease — never plain --force.
7. Commit before rebase — add → commit → fetch → rebase → push (a dirty tree aborts it).
8. No editorializing — state what changed, not how good it is (references/no-editorializing.md).

Reference Files

Reference	Content Triggers
references/commit-conventions.md	Conventional commits, DCO sign-off
references/pull-request-workflow.md	PR merge gate, signed rebase, posting a review with inline suggestions
references/ci-cd-integration.md	CI watching, git mirrors
references/advanced-git.md	Rebase, cherry-pick, bisect, stash, worktrees, reflog
references/github-releases.md	→ github-release skill
references/git-hooks-setup.md	Hook frameworks, hooks per stage
references/claude-code-hooks.md	settings.json merge gate, cache-path rejection, auto-lint
references/code-quality-tools.md	shellcheck, shfmt, git-absorb, difftastic
references/merge-gate-watcher.md	Waiting on a gate, a watcher the harness killed, merge-driver loop, check taxonomy, stale-SHA rerun
references/spec-cleanup.md	Planning artifacts off the base branch
references/no-editorializing.md	No self-praise, no narrating the expected

Conventional Commits

<type>[scope]: <description>

feat MINOR, fix PATCH; full type list and DCO sign-off in references/commit-conventions.md. Breaking: ! after type, or BREAKING CHANGE: in the footer. Branches: feature/TICKET-123-description, release/1.2.0

Hook Detection

ls lefthook.yml .lefthook.yml captainhook.json .pre-commit-config.yaml .husky/pre-commit 2>/dev/null || echo "No hooks"

Install commands per framework: references/git-hooks-setup.md.

PR Merge Requirements

Before merging: threads resolved, CI green (incl. annotations), rebased, signed, and reviewed on the current head — by a human, a bot, or the author through pr-merge.sh --self-reviewed. A review is mandatory; a bot review is not, and one is waited for only while it is actually in flight. Rebase-only + signed: git merge --ff-only.

Verification

./scripts/verify-git-workflow.sh /path/to/repository
# Gate state, next action:
./scripts/pr-status.sh [-R owner/repo] [PR] [--json] [--watch]
# Merge; refuses when the gate is shut:
./scripts/pr-merge.sh [-R owner/repo] [PR] [--dry-run|--self-reviewed]
# What a repository expects, before the first artifact:
./scripts/repo-contribution-preflight.sh [--repo <dir>] [--section docs|templates|packaging|ci|tools]
# Which copy is installed here (every script answers this):
./scripts/pr-status.sh --version

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Contributing: https://github.com/netresearch/git-workflow-skill