hierarchical features

[jacoba]

Does git flow support features hierarchy?
I have a major feature which I want to break into 2-3 sub features,
and I want their code to be branched off the major feature.
I know I can do that with regular git commands, but I wonder if the
git flow commands support that or planning to.
Thanks,
Jacob

[Mark Derricutt]

Not directly - tho I done this in the past and have thought about turning it somehow into a command.  But...

1) Start a new feature, call it your-epic
2) git branch -m feature/your-epic to stream/your-epic
3) git flow init - reconfigure git-flow to use stream/your-epic as the develop branch, use your-epic as the feature prefix
4) start/finish features as normal, git-flow merges features back into epic/your-epic
5) when finished, git flow init back to normal settings
6) git branch -m stream/your-epic back to feature/your-epic
7) git flow feature branch feature/your-epic

Automating this into some form of "git flow epic start/finish" would be good, but could be messy keeping track of all the different configuration pairs, should be doable tho.

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[Aseem Kishore]

Why not just:

```

git flow feature start full

git flow feature start sub feature/full # says to start the "sub" feature from the "feature/full" branch

git flow feature finish sub

# ...

# repeat for other subfeatures

git flow feature finish full

```

?

Aseem

[Peter van der Does]

The git flow feature finish sub merges all changes into the develop
branch, not the feature/full branch

[Aseem Kishore]

Ah thanks, did not know that.

Aseem