Spatie Version Control
Apply Spatie's version control conventions when creating commits, branches, pull requests, or managing Git repositories; use for naming repos, writing commit messages, choosing branch strategies, and merging code.
Specification
- Skill ID
- spatie/guidelines-skills/spatie-version-control
- Publisher
- spatie
- Repository
- guidelines-skills
- Installs
- 0
- Files
- 2
- License
- MIT
- Synced
- Sep 23, 2026
How to use it
Open any RiverX project, open the Skills panel in the chat, and search for this identifier. The files are fetched from the source repository at install time.
spatie/guidelines-skills/spatie-version-controlInstalls these files- SKILL.md
- references/spatie-version-control-guidelines.md
What this skill tells the agent
Spatie Version Control Guidelines
Overview
Apply Spatie's Git and version control conventions for consistent repository management.
When to Activate
- Activate this skill when creating commits, branches, or pull requests.
- Activate this skill when naming new repositories.
- Activate this skill when deciding on branching or merging strategies.
Scope
- In scope: Git operations, repository naming, branch naming, commit messages, merge strategies.
- Out of scope: Code style, deployment pipelines, CI/CD configuration.
Workflow
- Identify the Git operation or repository convention involved.
- Read
references/spatie-version-control-guidelines.mdand focus on the relevant sections. - Apply the project-stage rules before branch, commit, merge, or cleanup guidance.
Core Rules (Summary)
- Name site repositories after their lowercase naked domain and other repositories with kebab-case.
- Keep
mainstable and deployable after launch, and remove stale branches. - Use
developduring initial development; use feature branches once a project is live. - Use only lowercase letters and hyphens in branch names.
- Write descriptive, present-tense, granular commits.
- Rebase regularly and generally squash feature branches when merging.
- Treat history-rewriting and destructive Git commands with the cautions in the reference.
References
references/spatie-version-control-guidelines.md
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