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+---
+title: Git Aliases
+description: Using aliases to become a slightly faster Git user
+date: 2024-01-08
+tags:
+  - git
+  - workflow
+draft: true
+extra:
+  auto_center_images: true
+aliases:
+  - /blog/git-aliases
+---
+
+I use Git a lot. I use it for work, I use it for personal projects, I use it for this website, *etc.* I like it.
+
+Through my time using Git, I've collected a small set of [aliases](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Git-Aliases) that I use pretty much daily. This post is a little overview of those aliases with the hope that whoever stumbles across this page finds them useful in the future.
+
+## Author Ranking
+
+Ever wondered who on your team does the most work? Well, most *commits*. Git can show you!
+
+I have this command aliased as `git authors`:
+
+```sh
+git shortlog --summary --numbered --email
+```
+
+An example output from an old [Raider Robotics](/robotics/5024) codebase:
+
+```sh
+# git authors
+727  Evan Pratten <evan@ewpratten.com>
+ 44  William Meathrel <REDACTED>
+ 23  Carter Tomlenovich <REDACTED>
+...
+```
+
+## Commit Graph
+
+One day, I noticed that the only reason I used [GitKraken](https://www.gitkraken.com/) was to see the commit graph, so I decided to make an alias to display it in the terminal instead, removing my reliance on GitKraken all together.
+
+I keep tweaking this one over time, but as of writing, I have the following command aliased as `git tree`:
+
+```sh
+git log --graph --decorate --abbrev-commit --all \
+  --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)commit %h%C(auto)%d%n%C(cyan)Author:%Creset %aN %C(dim white)<%aE>%n%C(cyan)Date:%Creset %C(dim white)%ad (%ar)%n%s%n' \
+  --date=format:'%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S %z'
+```
+
+Ya.. thats a long one. Feel free to check out all the [formatting options](https://git-scm.com/docs/pretty-formats) Git provides.
+
+Basically, this command displays an ASCII-art commit graph, complete with information about the commit and author. Heres a screenshot of it in action in that same Raider Robotics codebase:
+
+![Git Tree in action](/images/posts/git-aliases/tree.png)
+
+## Branch Overview
+
+When working in a large team, its rather easy to loose track of other people's branch names.
+
+To help with that, I've aliased this command as `git branches`:
+
+```sh
+git branch -a -l -vv
+```
+
+Continuing to use robotics codebases as an example, here is the output of this command:
+
+![Git Branches in action](/images/posts/git-aliases/branches.png)
+
+## Hot Files
+
+This one is more out of curiosity than anything else. Sometimes I want to know what files are changed the most often.
+
+I have this command aliased as `git lscommits`:
+
+```sh
+! ( echo -e "Commits\tFile" && git log --pretty=format: --name-only | sed '/^$/d' | sort | uniq -c | sort -g -r ) | less
+```
+
+See that exclamation mark at the start? Git aliases can actually be bound to arbitrary shell commands, not just other Git commands. This is a great way to make a command that does something Git can't do on its own.
+
+Switching up my example repository, heres the output of this command in the [bird](https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird) repository:
+
+![Git lscommits in action](/images/posts/git-aliases/lscommits.png)
+
+## Small but Mighty
+
+These last two are by far my most used, and simultaneously the most boring aliases.
+
+- `git aa` is aliased to `git add .` (aka: "add all")
+- `git c` is aliased to `git commit`
+  
+:shrug: efficiency is efficiency.

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