Some handy Git aliases

I got some useful Git aliases a while ago and was starting with a new client where I needed to recreate them so I decided the document them here.

git s is useful for short status display, defined like this:

git config --global alias.s 'status --short'

git lg is a short, graphical log display, defined like this:

git config --global alias.lg 'log --oneline --decorate --graph'

Example output is:

Then I decided to augment it with useful extra information, including colouring.

git config --global alias.lg 'log --graph --format="%C(auto)%h %C(cyan)%cn%C(auto)%d %s %C(magenta)%cr"'

The %C(auto) specification does not colour committer name or date, so I coloured those explicitly.

Documentation is here:

• git config
• git status
• git log