More aliases

In Chapter 2, Configuration, we saw how we can create aliases and a few examples of them. In this example, we will see some more examples of the useful aliases.

Getting ready

Clone the cookbook-tips-tricks repository and checkout the aliases branch:

$ git clone https://github.com/dvaske/cookbook-tips-tricks.git
$ cd cookbook-tips-tricks
$ git checkout aliases

How to do it...

Here, we'll see some examples of aliases with a short description of each of them and an example of how to use them. The aliases are just made for the local repository; use --global to make them available for all the repositories.

• Show the current branch only:

  $ git config alias.b "rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
  $ git b
  aliases
  

• Show a compact graph history view with colors:

  git config alias.graph "log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative"
  git graph origin/conflict aliases
  

  
• When...