One Tip a Week: A git alias for showing your git aliases

This week’s tip of the week is a git alias to show your git aliases. If you’re new to git aliases read up more on git aliases in the official git documentation.

A couple weeks ago, I showed you how to add some git aliases for Conventional Commits. Now let’s list those aliases by creating another git alias! We’re going to call our new git alias aliases.

git config --global alias.aliases "! git config --get-regexp ^alias\\. | sed -e s/^alias\\.// -e s/\\ /\\ =\\ /"

The TLDR is it’s pulling out the list of aliases from your global git configuration. You can run that command, but it’s a lot to remember, although if you ran it before, maybe you just want to use mcfly. 😎 

So this adds a new alias to your git global configuration. Now if you run git aliases, you get a list of all your aliases! Here’s mine if you’re curious. I find this handy when I forget some of my less used git aliases.

❯ g aliases

a = add .
b = branch
bi = bisect
ci = commit -m
co = checkout
colast = checkout -
db = branch -D
laf = fsck
pf = push --force-with-lease
psu = push --set-upstream
ra = rebase --abort
rc = rebase --continue
remotes = remote -v
renb = branch -m
s = status -s
stashes = stash list
unstash = stash pop
vc = clean -dfx
mend = commit --amend
last = log -1 HEAD
lc = diff HEAD^ HEAD
rhh = reset --hard HEAD
rh = reset
sfc = diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r
aliases = ! git config --get-regexp ^alias\. | sed -e s/^alias\.// -e s/\ /\ =\ /
chore = !chore() { git commit -m "chore: $1"; }; chore
fix = !fix() { git commit -m "fix: $1"; }; fix
feat = !feature() { git commit -m "feat: $1"; }; feature
featb = !featurebreak() { git commit -m "feat!: $1"; }; featurebreak
test = !test() { git commit -m "test: $1"; }; test
docs = !docs() { git commit -m "docs: $1"; }; docs
conf = config --global --edit
trigger = ! git commit --allow-empty -m 'chore: trigger build'
laf = fsck
ec = config  --global --edit
sn = !f() { git stash push -m "$1"; }; f
un = !f() { git stash apply stash^{/$1}; }; f

That’s it! Short and sweet. Until the next one!