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The Ultimate Git Alias Setup

If you use git on the command-line, you'll eventually find yourself wanting aliases for your most commonly-used commands. It's incredibly useful to be able to explore your repos with only a few keystrokes that eventually get hardcoded into muscle memory.

Some people don't add aliases because they don't want to have to adjust to not having them on a remote server. Personally, I find that having aliases doesn't mean I that forget the underlying commands, and aliases provide such a massive improvement to my workflow that it would be crazy not to have them.

The simplest way to add an alias for a specific git command is to use a standard bash alias.

# .bashrc

This is an example command for Backtick. A Backtick command consists of some executable JavaScript and a bit of metadata in JSON.

Here are the required steps to create a command:

Create a new Gist with a command.js and command.json file, or simply fork this one.
Write your JavaScript in command.js. This will be injected into and executed on the page the user is currently on when they run it.
Add some metadata to the command.json file:

name: The name of the command.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	# Works with IFTTT recipe https://ifttt.com/recipes/125999
	#
	# Set Hazel to watch the folder you specify in the recipe.
	# Make sure nvALT is set to store its notes as individual files.
	# Edit the $target_folder variable below to point to your nvALT
	# ntoes folder.
	require 'date'
	require 'open-uri'
	require 'net/http'

	#!/usr/bin/ruby
	# Generates a bunch of random Markdown text (with footnotes/tables)
	# REQUIREMENTS:
	# raingrams gem ([sudo] gem install raingrams)
	# a text file at ~/words/alice.txt containing lots of words
	# I recommend using mine from http://ckyp.us/kZWQ

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'raingrams'

	launchpro-dropbox://x-callback-url/addlastphoto?
	getlink=1&
	x-success={{launchpro://?url=
	tweetbot%3A%2F%2Fepramono%2Fpost%3Ftext%3D%5Bclipboard%5D}}

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	input = STDIN.read

	input.gsub!(/^\=+\n ?(.*?)\n\=+/,"# \\1")
	input.gsub!(/^-+\n\d+ (.*?)\n-+/,"## \\1")
	input.gsub!(/^\d+\.\d+ (.*)/,"### \\1")
	input.gsub!(/^\d+\.\d+\./,"@")
	input.gsub!(/^@\d+ /,"- ")
	input.gsub!(/^@\d+\.\d+ /,"\t- ")

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	=begin

	Simple script to smack your glitch up.

	Call this program with the name of an image file, and two numbers

	The first number is used to determine when to mess with a byte in the
	image file. If you pass in, say 2000, then even 2000th byte gets tweaked.

	clearapp://list/create?
	listName=[prompt:List Name]&
	tasks=[prompt-list:List Items]

	$ defaults write com.pilotmoon.popclip UseShortTitles -bool YES
	$ killall PopClip && open -a PopClip