gitconfig

Various useful aliases for using the git cli

Aliases

• git ac "my commit message"

  • Adds the changed files and commits them with the specified message

• git del-file-log src/full-path/some-file-name.ext

  • Shows the commit log for a deleted file in the repository
  • This is useful for finding a commit / PR a file was deleted in
  • It can be used with git del-file-path to find the full path(s) the file lived in while it was used

• git del-file-path some-file-name.ext

  • Shows the full path(s) a deleted file lived in while it was used

• git publish

  • Gets the current local branch's name and publishes it to origin under the same name

  # Usage:
  
  $ git checkout -b my-new-branch
  $ git publish
  -> Branch 'my-new-branch' set up to track remote branch 'my-new-branch' from 'origin'. 
  

• git squash-template

  • Rebases the branch (main should be checked out) back to the root commit
  • Allows you to pick the first commit and squash the rest into it
  • Useful for when a using a repository as a template, pushing cleanup commits to it (like readme, naming, config, etc), and then resetting the repository to start with those changes as the initial commit