How to create and remove aliases in GIT

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I would like to know the commands to create an alias, I learned that I can shorten my commands and make it faster and more productive, but I still don’t know how to do this. Does anyone know the commands to create and remove?

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You can add them to your own ~/.gitconfig:

[alias]
    st = status
    ci = commit -v

Or you can make use of the command alias git config:

$ git config --global alias.st status 
$ git config --global alias.ci 'commit -v'

More information can be seen on documentation (English).

Reply credits for @Diego Dias on SOEN in this answer.

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I will assume that you work in Linux or OSX environment.

These aliases you put in your file ~/.bashrc (in the case of Linux) or in the file ~/.bash_profile (in the case of OSX). Edit them in Vim (no need to sudo) and put some aliases like:

alias gs='git status;'
alias gc='git commit $1;'
alias gca='git commit -am $1;'
alias gcap='git commit -am $1; git push;'

(only one detail: use = and not = with spaces around it as this is a comparison operator)

Anyway, these are some of the commands I configure for my environment. You can create the commands you want for your case.

Ah! Don’t forget to give one source ~/.bashtrc (or source ~/.bash_profile in the case of OSX) to load the commands after you insert them. However, whenever you restart the system, the commands will already be available.

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