My favorite is git h, which produces a nicely summarized log of commits on the current branch, with some highlighting and relative dates:

[alias]
    h = log --graph  --abbrev-commit --date=relative --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset'

What’s your favorite Git alias?

  • JackbyDevEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    git config --global alias.git '!git' Now if you do git git status by mistake you won’t get an error lol. I believe this is the most universally useful and unopinionated alias.

    The ! makes it treat it as a shell command instead of a git command. Then because it is git it just basically runs the remainder as a git command lol.

    • Jason NovingerOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Love it. I might also do igt (as in id-jit), which is what I call myself when I typo that.

      • canpolatMEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        And gti. Apparently one cannot push a Golf GTI from command line.