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