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My current .gitconfig aliases
[alias]
recent = "!git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short)' | head -n 10"
co = checkout
cob = checkout -b
coo = !git fetch && git checkout
br = branch
brd = branch -d
brD = branch -D
merged = branch --merged
st = status
aa = add -A .
cm = commit -m
aacm = !git add -A . && git commit
aacm = !git add -A . && git commit -m
cp = cherry-pick
amend = commit --amend -m
now = git commit --amend --no-edit --date="$(date)"
dev = !git checkout dev && git pull origin dev
staging = !git checkout staging && git pull origin staging
main = !git checkout main && git pull origin
master = !git checkout master && git pull origin
po = push origin
pu = !git push origin `git branch --show-current`
pod = push origin dev
pos = push origin staging
pom = push origin main
poh = push origin HEAD
pogm = !git push origin gh-pages && git checkout master && git pull origin master && git rebase gh-pages && git push origin master && git checkout gh-pages
pomg = !git push origin master && git checkout gh-pages && git pull origin gh-pages && git rebase master && git push origin gh-pages && git checkout master
plo = pull origin
plod = pull origin dev
plos = pull origin staging
plom = pull origin main
ploh = pull origin HEAD
unstage = reset --soft HEAD^
ls = log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%Cblue\\ [%cn]" --decorate
ll = log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%Cblue\\ [%cn]" --decorate --numstat
f = "!git ls-files | grep -i"
gr = grep -Ii
la = "!git config -l | grep alias | cut -c 7-"
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@qbunt

qbunt commented Oct 20, 2014

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thanks for sharing these man, there are some gems in here 👍

@theskillwithin

theskillwithin commented Oct 2, 2016

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trying to figure out how to have my gh-pages be a build folder inside the repo that is .gitignored from other branches.

breaks on gitignore

git push --force origin $(git commit-tree -m "auto" master:dist):gh-pages

hmmm

tree="$(export GIT_INDEX_FILE="$(mktemp)"; cat .git/index >"$GIT_INDEX_FILE"; git add -f dist && git write-tree --prefix=dist)"
    after that, imo you should do something like 
    git update-ref refs/heads/gh-pages "$(git commit-tree -p gh-pages -m auto "$tree")"

@JamesLaneProgramming

JamesLaneProgramming commented Feb 8, 2018

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I have attempted to create a repository using curl and the RESTful Github API, The libcurl command works in the bash shell but not as an alias could somebody help me with this? Sorry in advance for necro'ing an old post but it is the most relevant to the work i am doing :)

create = !curl -H 'Authorization: token <My_Access_Token>' -d '{ "name": "<Repo_Name>", "private": false }' https://api.github.com/user/repos

Before anyone asks, Yes i have interchanged <My_Access_Token> with my actual developer token, same with <Repo_Name>

@chamur

chamur commented Aug 14, 2018

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Thanks for sharing!

@Alfredynho

Alfredynho commented Feb 2, 2019

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Gracias por compartir tu configuracion

@hopeseekr

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A SUPER valuable one I use EVERY DAY as team lead both for myself and others, is:

    redate = rebase --committer-date-is-author-date

After a rebase, when you run it, it resets all of the commit dates to the author dates so your commit logs on github / gitlab show up in proper chronological order, instead of the moment of the rebase.

To use, when you're in a feature branch:

git rebase origin/master

@qins

qins commented Sep 11, 2019

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dmerged = "git branch --merged | grep -v '\*' | xargs -n 1 git branch -d"

missing "!" ?

should be:

dmerged = "!git branch --merged | grep -v '\*' | xargs -n 1 git branch -d"

or better use egrep -v '(^\*|master|dev)' to avoid accident

@johnpolacek

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@qins I decided to remove that one altogether as I never use it.

@adrianohrl

adrianohrl commented Nov 13, 2019

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I have attempted to create a repository using curl and the RESTful Github API, The libcurl command works in the bash shell but not as an alias could somebody help me with this? Sorry in advance for necro'ing an old post but it is the most relevant to the work i am doing :)

create = !curl -H 'Authorization: token <My_Access_Token>' -d '{ "name": "<Repo_Name>", "private": false }' https://api.github.com/user/repos

Before anyone asks, Yes i have interchanged <My_Access_Token> with my actual developer token, same with <Repo_Name>

@JamesLaneProgramming , have you solved this problem? I'm trying to create the following alias (in the ~/.gitconfig file) for getting the default Python's .gitignore file:

[alias]
      ...
      ignore_python = "!wget -O ./.gitignore https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/Python.gitignore"

@weibangtuo

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pu = !git push origin `git branch --show-current`

Push current branch to origin with the same name.

@martinmana

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Hi!
I've been looking for days for a fetch+checkout (to the new branch) alias, couldn't find it. And I'm not experienced enough to write it myself.
All the time I'm doing

git fetch origin master:examplename
And then
git checkout examplename

Can any of you guys give me a hand?
Cheers

@weibangtuo

weibangtuo commented Apr 2, 2020

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@martinmana

coom = "!f() { git fetch origin master:\"$1\"; git checkout \"$1\";}; f"

usage: git coom examplename

@martinmana

martinmana commented Apr 2, 2020

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Thank you very much @weibangtuo . I would love to know all this stuff. That's amazing. I really appreciate this.
Again, I'm really new to all this world.
Is there any chance you could write exactly the command for me to create this alias? Like... exactly. I keep getting this
-bash: !f: event not found

Thank you in advance. Regards

@weibangtuo

weibangtuo commented Apr 2, 2020

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@martinmana
you can edit gitconfig file vi ~/.gitconfig and add line to [alias] section.

or command

git config --global alias.coom "\!f() { git fetch origin master:\"\$1\"; git checkout \"\$1\";}; f"

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@martinmana

You could change the co to always do a full fetch first. I don't see what that would hurt.

co = fetch && checkout

@innyso

innyso commented Apr 18, 2020

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thank you for the great list of git alias!G

@jtomaszewski

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Any idea how to make those aliases to work with both master and main branch names? So that for example if main branch exists, pom pushes to main, if not, it pushes it to master.

@danielturus

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pu = !git push origin git branch --show-current

Thanks for this one!

@rantoniuk

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pu is simpler via git push -u origin HEAD :-)

@fan-tom

fan-tom commented Nov 24, 2020

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  update = "!fn() { \
    repo=${2:-origin}; \
    if [[ $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) = \"$1\" ]]; \
    then \
        git pull \"${repo}\"; \
    else \
        git fetch \"${repo}\" \"$1\":\"$1\"; \
    fi; \
    }; fn"

update master without checkout: git update master
update develop from upstream remote: get update develop upstream

@ryansully

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@jtomaszewski

Any idea how to make those aliases to work with both master and main branch names? So that for example if main branch exists, pom pushes to main, if not, it pushes it to master.

git symbolic-ref refs/heads/master refs/heads/main will alias master to main. Not quite the answer I think you were looking for, but it should work.

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I have following alias now: main = !git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD | cut -d'/' -f4

git main returns main or master or any other default branch name for the origin/HEAD.

Then I use it in my aliases like this:

  com = "!f(){ git checkout $(git main) $@;}; f"

Which for example is an alias for checking out the default branch.

@handletastic

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I have attempted to create a repository using curl and the RESTful Github API, The libcurl command works in the bash shell but not as an alias could somebody help me with this? Sorry in advance for necro'ing an old post but it is the most relevant to the work i am doing :)

create = !curl -H 'Authorization: token <My_Access_Token>' -d '{ "name": "<Repo_Name>", "private": false }' https://api.github.com/user/repos

Before anyone asks, Yes i have interchanged <My_Access_Token> with my actual developer token, same with <Repo_Name>

Look who I've found :O

@Franklin-Qi

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Thank you for share this.

@o6uoq

o6uoq commented Nov 9, 2022

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Use Oh My Zsh

@miohtama

miohtama commented Sep 29, 2024

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Another one, with arguments.

[alias]
# Add all files in staging + commit with message + push to remote
    acp = "!f() { git add -A ; git commit -m '$1'; git push; }; f"	

Example:

git acp "Fixing the bug"

@LuisDomiciano

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very useful

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