Git Aliases

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I started as a Git GUI person (I still love and use Gitup daily) but as I've grown as a developer I moved more and more into my terminal.

~/.zshrc
# Open the current repository in Gitup
alias g="gitup"
# Create a new Branch
alias gb="git checkout -b"
# Show the current status of the repo
alias gs="git status --short"
# Stage some files
alias ga="git add -v"
# Stage all files
alias gaa="ga -A"
# Make a commit
alias gc="git commit -m"
# Add all changes, amend the last commit, and force push
alias gaf="gaa && git amend && gp -f"
 
gitPush()
{
    # If in a git repo - call git mv. otherwise- call mv
    if [[ $(git config "branch.$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD).merge") == '' ]];
    then
        git push -u --porcelain "$@"
    else
        git push --porcelain "$@"
    fi
}
# Push to origin and set the upstream if necessary
alias gp=gitPush
 
# Delete merged branches
alias gcb="git checkout master && git pull && git branch --merged master | egrep -v 'next|master' | xargs -I % sh -c 'git branch -d %; git config --get branch.%.merge && git push origin -d %'"

The gp alias requires you to set a value in your git configuration

~/.gitconfig
[push]
  default = current

The gaf alias requires you to set a value in your git configuration. This will also make the git amend command available. This command will amend the last commit with any staged changes.

~/.gitconfig
[alias]
  amend = commit --no-edit --no-verify --amend

And while you're there you might as well use all my color settings too. Git output should be pretty too!

~/.gitconfig
[color]
  ui = true
  branch = auto
[color "diff-highlight"]
  oldNormal = red bold
  oldHighlight = red bold 52
  newNormal = green bold
  newHighlight = green bold 22
[color "diff"]
  commit = yellow bold
  old = red bold
  new = green bold
  whitespace = red reverse
[color "status"]
  branch = magenta normal bold
  remoteBranch = magenta normal bold
  changed = yellow normal bold
  untracked = red normal bold
  updated = green normal bold
[color "branch"]
  current = magenta normal ul bold
  remote = yellow normal bold

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