More aliases
In Chapter 2, Configuration, we saw how we can create aliases and a few examples of them. In this example, we will see some more examples of the useful aliases.
Getting ready
Clone the cookbook-tips-tricks
repository and checkout the aliases
branch:
$ git clone https://github.com/dvaske/cookbook-tips-tricks.git $ cd cookbook-tips-tricks $ git checkout aliases
How to do it...
Here, we'll see some examples of aliases with a short description of each of them and an example of how to use them. The aliases are just made for the local repository; use --global
to make them available for all the repositories.
- Show the current branch only:
$ git config alias.b "rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD" $ git b aliases
- Show a compact graph history view with ...
Get Git: Mastering Version Control now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.