Discussion on: Using Aliases to Speed Up Your Git Workflow

[Sergiu Mureşan]

Thank you for an in-depth list of common git commands. If I weren't on Windows I might be using some of them. (gl especially)

Using aliases is fine for the most part. Just so that people don't jump directly into using them, here are some downsides to this:

• You won't remember what each command does if you end up with too many too complex
• They work only on your own machine... I wouldn't want to waste time googling git commands when helping one of my colleagues :/
• If you use git extensively you might end up adding an alias for most parameters thus getting you lost in a sea of aliases

Overall, I think you should try it for the most used commands (like status, commit and pull), it definitely saves up some time.

[Robert Cooper]

You can use aliases on Windows? That surprises me.

[Sergiu Mureşan]

Apparently, you can.

I use git aliases and they are good enough for me... I just don't want to deal with batch... shivers