Aliases in Git

Did you know you can create git aliases almost the same way as you would create your shell aliases?

Global Aliases

To create global aliases type git config --global alias.<alias> <command> The aliases will be saved to the file ~/.gitconfig

In my dotfiles I've additionally included an alias for git: alias g="git" to make git status, add, commit and push very short:

g s
g a <filename>
g c -m "the commit message"
g p

Local Aliases

To create local aliases, such as a master-to-production merge, all you need to do is to create the alias without --global flag,or add the alias to the local .git/config

git config alias.production-merge "\!git checkout production;git merge master --no-ff;git checkout master"

Now you can just run git production-merge to do the magic.