tilgit alias

If you use git frequently you ought to set up some shortcuts with git aliases.

For example, while git show is useful, sometimes you just want the last commit information and not the entire contents of the commit. Consider adding git last

git config --global alias.last 'log -1 HEAD'

Now running git last is equivalent to git log -1 HEAD! This gets included into git help and shell completion.

Another useful alias is git unstage to remove a file from the staged commit, and git discard to remove the changes altogether.

git config --global alias.unstage 'restore --staged'
git config --global alias.discard 'checkout HEAD --'

My most used alias is one which stages all changes and then prints the current status, which I simply call git s. To run multiple commands, prefix with ! so the alias runs as a shell script.

git config --global alias.s '!git add -A; git status'

I use this so frequently, that I have an alias gs set up in my shell config:

alias gs='git s'

Finally, you might want more complex positional arguments. To do this, define then invoke a shell function. I have an alias git fixup which has almost the same API as git commit but takes an existing commit as the first argument. That will apply the staged change to that commit and rebase all later commits atop it. Useful when working in a stacked PR and fixing an issue in one of the earliest commits:

git config --global alias.fixup '!f() { TARGET=$(git rev-parse "$1"); git commit --fixup=$TARGET ${@:2} && EDITOR=true git rebase -i --autostash --autosquash $TARGET^; }; f'