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Git: Version Control for Everyone

By : Ravishankar Somasundaram
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Git: Version Control for Everyone

By: Ravishankar Somasundaram

Overview of this book

<div> <div>Git – is free software which enables you to maintain different versions of single or multiple files present inside a directory(folder), and allows you to switch back and forth between them at any given point of time. It also allows multiple people to work on the same file collaboratively or in parallel, without being connected to a server or any other centralized system continuously.<br /><br />This book is a step by step, practical guide, helping you learn the routine of version controlling all your content, every day. <br /><br />If you are an average computer user who wants to be able to maintain multiple versions of files and folders, or to go back and forth in time with respect to the files content – look no further. The workflow explained in this book will benefit anyone, no matter what kind of text or documentation they work on.<br /><br />This book will also benefit developers, administrators, analysts, architects and anyone else who wishes to perform simultaneous, collaborative work, or work in parallel on the same set of files. Git's advanced features are there to make your life easier.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> </div>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Git: Version Control for Everyone Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – adding simple aliases using CLI


In your command-line window, type the following:

git config --local alias.ad add
git config --local alias.st status

Now open your .config file, which is present inside the repository with your favorite text editor and you will see the following lines at the bottom:

[alias]
   ad = add
   st = status

What just happened?

We have successfully created aliases for the Git commands add and status. To verify this, switch back to your command-line window and type the command git st and observe the output, which will be a spot on match to your git status command . Similarly we can use git ad as a substitute for the git add command.

We can also chain two or more commands with one single alias. Let's learn how to do this.