How to set aliases in the Git Bash for Windows?

Question

How to alias command in Git Bash for Windows downloaded from git-scm.com ?

I mean Bash commands not Git.

(windows7)

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Edit:

Writing aliases i

Answer 1

Follow below steps:

1. Open the file .bashrc which is found in location C:\Users\USERNAME\.bashrc

   If file .bashrc not exist then create it using below steps:
   

   1. Open Command Prompt and goto C:\Users\USERNAME\.
   2. Type command notepad ~/.bashrc
      It generates the .bashrc file.

2. Add below sample commands of WP CLI, Git, Grunt & PHPCS etc.

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# ----------------------
# Git Command Aliases
# ----------------------
alias ga='git add'
alias gaa='git add .'
alias gaaa='git add --all'

# ----------------------
# WP CLI
# ----------------------
alias wpthl='wp theme list'
alias wppll='wp plugin list'

Now you can use the commands:

• ga instead of git add .
• wpthl instead of wp theme list

Eg. I have used wpthl for the WP CLI command wp theme list.

Yum@M MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/dev.test
$ wpthl
+------------------------+----------+-----------+----------+
| name                   | status   | update    | version  |
+------------------------+----------+-----------+----------+
| twentyeleven           | inactive | none      | 2.8      |
| twentyfifteen          | inactive | none      | 2.0      |
| twentyfourteen         | inactive | none      | 2.2      |
| twentyseventeen        | inactive | available | 1.6      |
| twentysixteen          | inactive | none      | 1.5      |
| twentyten              | inactive | none      | 2.5      |
| twentythirteen         | inactive | none      | 2.4      |
| twentytwelve           | inactive | none      | 2.5      |

For more details read the article Keyboard shortcut/aliases for the WP CLI, Git, Grunt & PHPCS commands for windows