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Git - Git Aliases (git-scm.com)

submitted 2 years ago by jnovinger to c/git

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My favorite is git h, which produces a nicely summarized log of commits on the current branch, with some highlighting and relative dates:

[alias]
    h = log --graph  --abbrev-commit --date=relative --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset'

What's your favorite Git alias?

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[–] JackbyDev 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

git config --global alias.git '!git' Now if you do git git status by mistake you won't get an error lol. I believe this is the most universally useful and unopinionated alias.

The ! makes it treat it as a shell command instead of a git command. Then because it is git it just basically runs the remainder as a git command lol.

[–] jnovinger 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love it. I might also do igt (as in id-jit), which is what I call myself when I typo that.

[–] canpolat 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And gti. Apparently one cannot push a Golf GTI from command line.

[–] jnovinger 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would you commit a car?!?!

[–] canpolat 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think so. One would need to download it first.

[–] msage 2 points 2 years ago

You can't stop me!