Simple git aliases for daily purpose

On average, every developer commits their code atleast once a day.

Having some git aliases help you quickly make changes and push your code.

No more typos

One of my daily frustrations in the past 🤬 -

Avoid common pitfalls are super important, it helps increase productivity in the long term.

Table of contents

• git status
• git commit
• git push
• git add and commit
• git add, commit and push
• git stash
• git stash apply
• git push --set-upstream
• git checkout

ps: These are aliases I have been using personally, feel free to create and share your own ☺️

1. git status 👉 gs

Before -

git status

After -

gs

Setup code -

alias gs='git status'

2. git commit 👉 gc

Before -

git commit -m 'Adding integration test cases'

After -

gc 'Adding integration test cases'

Setup code -

alias gc='git commit -m $2'

3. git push 👉 gp

Before -

git push

After -

gp

Setup code -

alias gp='git push'

4. git add . && git commit -m 👉 gac

Before -

git add .
git commit -m 'Adding integration test cases'

After -

gac 'Adding integration test cases'

Setup code -

alias gac='git add . && git commit -m $2'

5. git add . && git commit -m && git push 👉 gacp

Before -

git add .
git commit -m 'Adding integration test cases'
git push

After -

gacp 'Adding integration test cases'

Setup code -

alias gacp='git add . && git commit -m $2 && git push'

6. git stash 👉 gst

Before -

git stash

After -

gst

Setup code -

alias gst='git stash'

6. git stash apply 👉 gsta

Before -

git stash apply

After -

gsta

Setup code -

alias gsta='git stash apply'

6. git push --set-upstream origin 👉 gpst

This syntax is the one I forget the most 🤷‍♀️

Before -

git push --set-upstream origin integration-tests

After -

gpst integration-tests

Setup code -

alias gpst='git push --set-upstream origin $1'

6. git checkout 👉 gco

Before -

git checkout staging

After -

gco staging

Setup code -

alias gco='git checkout $1'

These are the aliases that I use everyday for the past few years. No typos, no errors and super handy.

Comments

[Doaa Mahely]

I’ve been wanting to setup aliases for my git workflow forever. The alias I want the most is for fetching a remote branch and checking out to it.