Git can color some of its output to help you visualize things more easily. You can use the following command to turn on automatic terminal coloring.
git config --global color.ui true# Git has no aliases by default.
# If you want to commit with `git ci` instead of `git commit`, for example,
# you can use the alias command.
git config --global alias.ci commit
# You can define more complicated aliases with options.
git config --global alias.graph "log --oneline --graph --decorate --all"
# Aliases are added to your ~/.gitconfig file.
# You can also modify this file directly.
cat ~/.gitconfigThe log command has a plethora of options to select which commits to log and to customize its output.
# This shows the log with full diffs:
git log --patch
# This shows the log with one line per commit, which is more readable.
git log --pretty=oneline
# This logs one commit per line with the author name and a short date.
git log --pretty=format:"%h %an %ad" --date=short
# This shows an ASCII graph of commits on all branches with branch markers.
git log --pretty=oneline --graph --decorate --all
# This logs the commits between the master and the feature branch
# (the commits that are in feature but not in master).
git log master..feature
# This logs the commits between the master branch on origin and the local master branch.
# In other words, it shows all the commits on your local master branch that have not yet
# been pushed to the master branch of the origin remote.
git log origin/master..mastergit-extras is a package of additional git commands.
It provides useful aliases like alias or ignore.
It also provides commands to analyze a repo like summary which lists authors and the number of contributions they made.
hub is a GitHub wrapper for git.
Where previously you would write git clone https://github.com/lotaris/git-workshop.git, you can just write git clone lotaris/git-workshop.
It also provides useful commands for forks and pull requests.