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"git nah" and more handy Git aliases

Michael Z on December 01, 2019

A while ago I posted an article on undoing changes in Git, but some of these arguments or flags just don't want to stick in my head or, I use them ...
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Erik Elmore

git rekt

git config --global alias.rekt = "reset --hard"

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Diaz Guntur Febrian

why i got this error?

expansion of alias 'rekt' failed; '=' is not a git command

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Michael Z

Check this comment dev.to/maxtruxa/comment/idja
You must omit the equals sign.

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Diaz Guntur Febrian

thank you

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Carlos Trapet

I'm stealing this one for demacia

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Maxence Poutord

oh I love this one!

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Ben Sinclair

I like "commit crime".

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Max Truxa

Nice post!

Some of the examples are broken.
The = is part of the config syntax but must not be present on the command line. For example

git config --global alias.c = "commit"

should be

git config --global alias.c "commit"
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Michael Z

Thanks for that! I corrected it

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Robin Bastiaan • Edited

Awsome list.

Could the last one be simplified to git config --global alias.alias '! git config --get-regexp alias'? That seems to do the trick too. I do not understand the rest of the syntax so I might be missing something.

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Wako

$ git oops

checkout --

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Nishchal Gautam

Instead of specifying branch name develop, which might get executed on another branch out of habbit, why not get current branch first? Search for ggpull and use its implementation :)

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Simon Turner • Edited

"Pushup" - to push commits from a (new) local branch to its (new) upstream:

git config --global alias.pushup "! git push --set-upstream origin \$(git branch | grep '*' | cut -d ' ' -f2)"

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Victor Yarema

It is sometimes recommended to use "pull --rebase=merges" instead of just "pull --rebase".

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Pooria A

This is really good stuff! I would just make sure to not use git nah if I already pushed my code to the upstream.

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Tineyi Takawira

Nice! Thanks for this post.