gitin2it

a set of aliases to make complex or rare git actions more intuitive

Installation

Add the following lines to your ~/.gitconfig

[include]
path = path/to/gitin2it/aliases

where path/to/gitin2it/aliases is the path, relative from the location of your .gitconfig file, to the aliases file in this repo.

Documentation Sytax

alias-name required-argument [optional-argument|'default-value'] [optional-argument]

What belongs here?

Git aliases that

• are intuitively, idiomatically named *
• replace commands that have switches...

  • git ignored vs. git ls-files --others --exclude-standard --ignored

    show ignored files in repository

• ... or syntax
  • git back vs. git checkout HEAD~1
• are named after google searches or stack overflow questions
  • "How do I unstage changes that I've commited?" git unstage vs. git reset
• Implement as-of-yet-unimplemented features
  • git diff-stat automatically sizes stat output to terminal width
• Wield the power of shell commands
  • two sequential commands: git scrub vs. git reset --hard; git clean -f -f -d; to remove all changes and new files
  • optional common defaults:
    • git set-upstream // defaults to origin
    • git set-upstream remote-other-than-origin // sets the upstream remote to (an existing) one other than origin

What doesn't belong here?

• abbrevations
  • git co for git checkout
• personalizations or niceities, such as a custom log format with certain fields, colors, etc.

• define approach to verb tenses, nouns, plurals (e.g. changes, change, changed)
• add filename argument to delete
• ignore: add a file or directory to .gitignore
• blamedir: like blame, but shows who introduced files in a directory

* Who decides what is intuitive or idiomatic?