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5 Great Git CLI Shortcuts

Jeff Gould on September 26, 2019

I think we're all onboard with git these days - it's the best way to collaborate on code with a team or to just keep things organized, synchronized...

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willsmart • Sep 27 '19

A nice one is

alias gdammit='git --amend --no-edit'

For those times you were just too quick on the trigger, and want to add some additional staged files to your last commit.

Feel free to use a different alias, like goops or gredo 🤨

Jeff Gould • Sep 27 '19

I've been meaning to add one like this - thinking gcrap or gdoh, or maybe just gc!

Jason Murray • Sep 28 '19

I use this to set git lg to be a cleaner overview of history:

git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"

Results in a nice tree view of history showing authors, hashes, titles and the tag/branch names.

Rémi Lavedrine • Sep 27 '19

That's a good one.
I must say that I never goes beyond the aliases that are by default in zsh and oh_my_zsh.

Here is a quick extract of the aliases available in oh_my_zsh :

g=git
ga='git add'
gaa='git add --all'
gap='git apply'
...
glo='git log --oneline --decorate'
...
grmv='git remote rename'
groh='git reset origin/$(git_current_branch) --hard'
grrm='git remote remove'
grset='git remote set-url'
grt='cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel || echo .)"'
gru='git reset --'
...
gupv='git pull --rebase -v'
gwch='git whatchanged -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium'
gwip='git add -A; git rm $(git ls-files --deleted) 2> /dev/null; git commit --no-verify --no-gpg-sign -m "--wip-- [skip ci]"'

Jeff Gould • Sep 27 '19

I wish that the aliases in oh_my_zsh were commented to tell you what they do in plain english. I will often look in there and try to add a new one to my arsenal, but that becomes a bit of a research project since I'm not fluent in git commands and typically need to look things up, at least just to be sure that the commands will do what I suspect.

SyntaxSeed (Sherri W) • Sep 26 '19

One of my fav aliases I always set up in git's own aliasing config is:

git ac

For git "all commit". Which is an alias for git add .; git commit -m.

To just add & commit everything in one go.

Jakub • Sep 27 '19

git add . is 'all commit' only if you have changes on the current path. If you have changes in e.g. sibling dir it won't work as you'd have to go up the path which is ... For a true 'all commit' use git add -A.

SyntaxSeed (Sherri W) • Sep 27 '19 • Edited

Thanks!
I do always run this from project root so I'm ok. But I think I'll switch to your suggestion! :)

Jeff Gould • Sep 26 '19

I like that - I have gc aliased to git commit so I'll usually do gc -am "commit message" but that does have the the drawback of not adding new files and I forget that 90% of the time and then have to amend the commit which is a whole thing.

Cesar Aguirre • Sep 27 '19

Today I came across to this one:

alias gconf='git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U'

To list the conficted files after a merge

Bruno Rocha • Sep 27 '19

I use hub and I alias git=hub

then I have

git sync, git pr list, git pull-request create, git release etc...

Jeff Gould • Sep 27 '19

I hadn't heard of hub, will have to check it out.

hub: A command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub

Ziv • Sep 27 '19

Here are the aliases I use gist.github.com/zivni/90a6a93fec67...

Vincent Schröder • Nov 29 '19

Just created this little handy alias for interactive rebase

alias gitrebase='git checkout master && git pull && git checkout - && git rebase -i HEAD~$(git rev-list --count HEAD ^master)'