Git aliases, like Unix aliases, are short commands that can be configured on a global level or for each repository. It is a simple way of renaming some Git commands to use short abbreviations, for example, git checkout
could be git co
, and so on.
It's very simple and straightforward to create an alias. You simply need to configure it with git config
.
What we will do is check a branch and then create its aliases one by one and execute them to view their output by performing the following steps:
- So, we will start by checking a branch named
gitAlias
, which tracks theorigin/stable-3.2
branch:
$ git checkout -b gitAlias --track origin/stable-3.2
Branch gitAlias set up to track remote branch stable-3.2 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'gitAlias'
- After this, we can start creating some aliases. We will start with the following one, which will simply just amend your commit:
$ git config alias.amm 'commit --amend'
- Executing this alias will open the commit...