We can configure Git commands for various purposes:
Shortening Git commands
Instead of typing out a command line git status entirely, we can configure our command line so that we can just type git s (or git whatever):
$ git config --global alias.s status
$ git s
The Git manual recommends other aliases:
$ git config --global alias.co checkout
$ git config --global alias.br branch
$ git config --global alias.ci commit
Combining Git commands
This answer to a Stack Overflow question combines git add and git commit into one git add-commit:
$ git config --global alias.add-commit '!git add -A && git commit'
$ git add-commit -m 'my commit message'
Combining the above two, we can do something like:
$ git config --global alias.ac add-commit
$ git ac -m 'my commit message'
Thus, we can generalize the format as:
$ git config -global alias.{alias} {command}
$ git {alias} [flags]
Other examples
Configuring a "push to origin" command
Short for git push origin branchname (push to the cloud!)
$ git config --global alias.pom 'push origin branchname'
# pushes to branch named branchname
$ git pom
Configuring a "checkout new branch" command
Short for git checkout -b {branch-name} (check into a new branch)
$ git config --global alias.cob 'checkout -b'
$ git cob anybranchname
Enjoy!
