Git Config

Git commands can be long, the following instructions will show you how to make them short. For bash git completion, check out instructions.

Now you could do:

• git lol instead of git log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit

• git co instead of git checkout

Instructions

1. Download my .gitconfig gist.

   or

   Create a .gitconfig file in your home directory. ~/.gitconfig and copy the following text.

   Note: Make sure to change name and email

    [user]
        name = Joe Buza
        email = [email protected] 
    [color]
        ui = auto
    [color "branch"]
        current = yellow reverse
        local = yellow
        remote = green
    [color "diff"]
        meta = yellow bold
        frag = magenta bold
        old = red bold
        new = green bold
    [color "status"]
        added = yellow
        changed = green
        untracked = cyan
    [alias]
        cmt = commit
        cam = commit -am
        st = status
        br = branch
        co = checkout
        df = diff
        dc = diff --cached
        lg = log-p
        lol = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
        lola = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --all
        ls = ls-files
        please = push --force-with-lease
        undo = reset --soft HEAD^
        recommit = commit -a -c ORIG_HEAD
        commend = commit --amend --no-edit
        stsh = stash --keep-index
        staash = stash --include-untracked
        staaash = stash --all
        shorty = status --short --
        merc = merge --no-ff
        br-ac = branch --sort=committerdate
        br-desc = branch --sort=-committerdate
        stash-untracked = "!f() {    \
                                git stash;               \
                                git stash -u;            \
                                git stash pop stash@{1}; \
        }; f"
        tags = log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --pretty="format:%ci %d"
        ign = ls-files -o -i --exclude-standard
        pr = "!f() { git fetch -fu ${2:-upstream} refs/pull/$1/head:pr/$1 && git checkout pr/$1; }; f"
        pr-clean = "!git checkout master ; git for-each-ref refs/heads/pr/* --format=\"%(refname)\" | while read ref ; do branch=${ref#refs/heads/} ; git branch -D $branch ; done"
   
    [push]
        default = matching
    [filter "media"]
        clean = git-media-clean %f
        smudge = git-media-smudge %f
    [commit]
            template = ~/.git-commit-template.txt
    [core]
        editor = vim
    [fetch]
        prune = true
   

2. Copy our git commit template to your home directory or run the following command:

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Linell/bd8100c4e04348c7966d/raw/37c1f07f864587a01eb051dc38264267f4a840df/.git-commit-template.txt >> ~/.git-commit-template.txt

git config --global commit.template ~/.git-commit-template.txt

Note: Make sure your template path corresponds with the one in your .gitconfig:

[commit]
template = ~.git-commit-template.txt