README.md

#git-essential

Useful essential git config and shortcuts!

About this project

Need some useful shortcuts for git out of the box, but you're tired of reading through big projects with dark-magic mumbo-jumbo? You're in the right place! Only purpose of this script is to add few essential shortcuts to git, that will not overwhelm you and will speed up your work.

Included shortcuts

Log shortcuts:

1. l - basic colored log
2. ll - log showing additions and substractions from each file in commit
3. g - graph
4. lds - same as l, but with dates
5. ld - same as l, but with date intervals (like "6 days ago")
6. filelog, fl - log with file diff
7. dl - same as ll, but showing only last commit
8. branchdiff branch1...branch2 - shows if there are any unsynchronized commits between branch1 and branch2. Useful if you are about to force delete branch that git reports as "not fully merged"

Workflow shortcuts:

1. s - shortcut for status -sb. This will give you easy to read, clean info about status of your working tree and index. First column shows you info about file state in index, and second column shows info about file status in working tree
2. b stands for branch -avv. Calling git b will output you list of your local and remote branches, along with basic info (last commit, last commit message)
3. co - shortcut for checkout
4. st - alias of status -s
5. ci - alias of commit
6. cl - alias of clone
7. cp - alias of cherry-pick
8. pur - alias of pull --rebase

Also included

1. git output coloring,
2. rerere (REuse REcorded REsolution of conflicts - useful while rebasing)

Installation

1. Clone this repository.
2. Navigate to freshly created git-essentials folder.
3. Add execute permissions to git-essentials.sh (for example, in command line: chmod u+x git-essentials.sh)
4. Execute ./git-essentials.sh
5. Test it! Just try to run git b or git s. Looks good, isn't it?