Shortcuts for git commands

Question

I would like to use shortcuts or aliases for git commands.

git diff
git status
git push 
git pull
git stash
git branch -a

How do I create shor

Answer 1

I would recommend oh-my-zsh git shortcuts.

It has a very thorough (more than 100 shortcuts) list.

Here is a small sample to get you started:

alias ga='git add'
alias gc='git commit -v'
alias gd='git diff'
alias gst='git status'

alias gco='git checkout'
alias gcm='git checkout master'

alias gb='git branch'
# view remote branches
alias gbr='git branch --remote'

alias gup='git pull --rebase'
alias gp='git push'
# push a newly created local branch to origin
alias gpsup='git push --set-upstream origin $(git_current_branch)'

The selection of letters in most shortcuts make them adequately intuitive.

Using the shortcuts provided by a popular and active open source project has many benefits. Some of which:

• never care if you lose them since you can easily find them!
• increases the chances of other people having the same shortcuts as you and thus learn from each other.
• decreases the chances of shortcuts conflicting with other commands.

Even if you don't use zsh, you can still copy them in a regular shell configuration file like .bashrc.

I have also added

alias oh='less ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh'

so that I can quickly read the available shortcuts right from the terminal.