Git is great, but creating some git aliases is a great way to make your usages even more efficient.

To add any of these you can either copy and paste into the [alias] section of your .gitconfig file or run git config --global alias.NAME 'COMMAND' replacing NAME with the alias to use, and COMMAND with what to run.

So without further ado, here are the ones I have created and use on a very regular basis.

Constant usage

• git s - an alias for git status. Have to save those 5 keypresses!

  s = status
  

• git cm "some commit message" - shorthand for commit with a message

  cm = commit -m
  

• git dc - diff files staged for commit

  dc = diff --cached
  

• git scrub - deletes everything not tracked by git (git clean -dxf) except the packages and node_modules directories

  scrub = clean -dxf --exclude=packages --exclude=node_modules
  

Context switching, rebasing on dirty HEAD

I rebase my changes onto the current branches often, but rebasing requires a clean repository to work on. The following two aliases are used something like this: git save && git pull --rebase && git undo

• git save - adds and commits everything in the repository, with the commit message SAVEPOINT

  save = !git add -A && git commit -m 'SAVEPOINT'
  

• git undo - undoes the last commit, leaving everything as it was before committing. Mostly used to undo a git save call

  undo = reset HEAD~1 --mixed
  

I also use these if I need to save my work to work on a bug fix on a different branch.

What have I done?

Often I want commits I have pending, either to the local master, or a remote tracking branch. These both give an output like this:

• git pending - shows the commits on the current branch compared to the origin/master branch

  pending = log origin/master..HEAD --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --format='%Cgreen%cr:%Creset %C(auto)%h%Creset %s'
  

• git pendingup - shows the commits on the current branch compared to its tracking branch

  pendingup = "!git log origin/\"$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)\"..HEAD --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --format='%Cgreen%cr:%Creset %C(auto)%h%Creset %s'"
  

More?

I have some others not documented here, but are in my config repo on Github.