Alias

Aliases are shortcuts for your most-used or complex Git commands

Edit your git config file

If it is located in your home folder and you are using nano, you can do so:

nano ~/.gitconfig

Otherwise, pick the editor of your choice and the right location of the file.

If you don’t have this config file already, create it:

touch ~/.gitconfig

Add the alias

For example let’s add a useful shortcut for listing all your current branches with their last update time.

Add the following lines to the config file (if you already have an “[alias]” section, just add the alias):

[alias]
    wip= for-each-ref --sort='authordate:iso8601' --format=' %(color:green)%(authordate:relative)%09%(color:white)%(refname:short)' refs/heads

How to use it

All you have to do now is typing git wip in your terminal:

git wip

Which should print something like this:

11 days ago         bugfix/undefined-recipe-title
10 days ago         feature/edit-header-tags
6 days ago          feature/new-app-icons
2 days ago          test/authentication

Other useful aliases

s= status -sb
a= add
c= commit -m
pl= pull
ph= push
d= diff
md= merge --no-ff develop
l= log --all --decorate --oneline --graph
last= log -1 HEAD --stat
conf= config --global -l

Now you can commit like a pro :

git pl
git s
git a .
git c "<conventional commit message>"
git ph