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🔱 Git Commands You Didn't Know

Ephraim Duncan on September 23, 2020

TL;DR One of my favorite things about Git is being as simple as it is and also being customisable and one of those features is aliases. ...

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Eljay-Adobe • Sep 23 '20

My aliases:

st = status -s -uno
co = checkout
coffee = "!f(){ if [ `date -j +%a` = 'Fri' ]; then echo 'Friday! Time for beer!'; else echo 'Time for a coffee break. Go get a cup of joe.'; fi };f"
master = checkout master
rmbr = "!f(){ git branch -d \"${1}\"; git push origin --delete \"${1}\"; };f"
mkbr = "!f(){ local args=\"$*\"; local gituser=$(git config user.email); gituser=${gituser%@*}; if [ \"$args\" = \"\" ]; then args=\"$(date \"+%Y-%b-%d\")\"; fi; args=${gituser:-${USER}}/$args; args=$(echo \"$args\" | tr ' [A-Z]' '_[a-z]'); git checkout -b \"$args\"; };f"
ls = "!f(){ if [ -z \"${1}\" ]; then echo 'git ls [HASH] • show the files involved in the commit'; else git diff --name-only \"${1}^..${1}\"; fi; };f"
at = rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
unstage = restore --staged
unadd = restore --staged
discard = checkout --
alias = config --get-regexp ^alias\\.
d = difftool
ds = difftool --staged
branches = branch --all

git ls hash
— is useful to show the files involved in a commit.

Ephraim Duncan • Sep 23 '20

I must say, they are pretty awesome.

Catriel Lopez • Sep 23 '20

Grep stands for "Global Regular Expression Printer". It gives you a clue about how it works, which is important, but "git search" doesn't.

I really like the plg and zip aliases, so I'm definitively stealing those! Thanks for writing!

Cliff • Sep 26 '20 • Edited

That's more of a backronym, really. It actually comes from the relatively ancient ed line editor's command g/re/p which basically means "global search / for a regular expression / print matching lines". So it's at least a fairly accurate backronym to the source.

The g command still sort of lives on in vi/Vim's ex mode commands. The most common use these days is probably for g/pattern/d, which does a global search for the pattern and deletes matching lines, sort of the opposite of the original g/re/p command.

Catriel Lopez • Sep 26 '20

Oh, I didn't know that! Thanks!

Ephraim Duncan • Sep 23 '20

Thanks for grep too. I guess search isn't

Winston Puckett • Sep 24 '20

Oh man. That git here. Where has that been all my life?

eabase • Sep 23 '20

Nice one there Ephraim.
Been using git for years, and still found something useful here.
PS. "grep" is selecting something using regular expressions.

Ephraim Duncan • Sep 23 '20

Wow. Thanks

Dan Jones • Sep 28 '20

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep

Read a bit more about standalone grep. It's an important part of any unix system.

Wesley de Groot • Sep 23 '20

My favorite is git recommit.

Spencer Pollock • Sep 25 '20 • Edited

This one is my current favorite. Highly recommended after a git fetch --all to visualize where the branches are at.

[alias]
    tree = log --graph --oneline --all

Ankit Beniwal • Sep 24 '20

Now I will have the proof in order to blame someone for a bug. 😂😂

Cool.

Ephraim Duncan • Sep 24 '20

😀

Budi Arsana • Sep 27 '20

My only and must have alias git up

alias.up=pull --all --prune

It fetch all branches, delete tracking remote branches that not exist and pull the update.

Ephraim Duncan • Sep 27 '20

Nice.

dsbarnes • Sep 26 '20

I learned of git cherry-pick top of last week, thought I'd toss that one in here too.
Great article!

Amir Hameed • Sep 26 '20

waow. nice

Keerthi • Sep 29 '20

nice ...thanks for sharing

Tiago Celestino • Sep 24 '20

Nice!! I’ll update my .gitconfig now!!

Ashiqul • Sep 27 '20

Some names are creative. Nice read. 👍

Ephraim Duncan • Sep 27 '20

Thanks