In our workspaces, we’ve added some Git aliases to make our lives easier.
We’ve abbreviated git to just g.
In addition, if you don’t supply a command, we’ve made the default status.
So now anytime you’re at a terminal prompt, you should make a habit of frequently doing:
g
And it will be the equivalent of:
git status
And you’ll know what’s changed since the last commit, what branch you’re on, how many commits you’ve made since you last pulled, etc.
Instead of:
git add -A
git commit -m "Makes the project awesome"
You can do:
g acm "Makes the project awesome"
Instead of:
git push
You can do:
g p
Instead of:
git checkout -b my-new-branch
You can do:
g cob my-new-branch
Instead of:
git checkout my-existing-branch
You can do:
g co my-existing-branch
Instead of:
git add -A
git stash
You can do:
g as
Technically, stashing doesn’t immediately discard changes; it stores them in a randomly named commit. You can get them back with
git stash pop. Handy if you want to quickly save your current work to work on a different branch. Read more about stash here.
Instead of:
git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all
You can do:
g sla