Git helpers - Simplify your git workflow

The page presents a set of Git aliases the author uses every day to avoid repeating the same commands. It groups them around common tasks such as starting work on an issue, updating a branch, cleaning up finished work, pushing changes, syncing a fork, and checking commit history or branch status.

Reading notes

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• The aliases were created because the author got tired of typing the same Git commands repeatedly.
• Some of the alias definitions were inherited from Nicholas C. Zakas’s gist.
• ws 34 updates master from remote and creates a new branch named issue34.
• wd 34 deletes a finished branch from both local and remote Git.
• update rebases a branch on the latest master when changes are already committed.
• updateD stashes uncommitted changes, updates from master, and reapplies the stash.
• rebase 4 squashes commits by rebasing the last four commits from HEAD; the default is two.
• push sends branch changes to remote, but not to master.
• fpush force-pushes with --force-with-lease and also avoids pushing to master.
• pull pulls from upstream and merges into the current branch with --rebase --prune.
• uf updates a fork by syncing upstream master into local master and pushing it to origin.
• c "<message>" creates a quick commit with the given message and uses -a.
• log shows commits in one-line format with message, date, author, and other info.
• s shows the current branch status.
• The setup instructions say to add the gist content to .bashrc, reopen Bash, and run alias to see the defined commands.