Git Miscellaneous

Setting up Aliases¶

We can add aliases in the ~/.gitconfig file
By default you will have your name and email there

We can also define these aliases in our .bashrc file

[alias]
  co = checkout
  ci = commit
  st = status
  br = branch
  hist = log --pretty=format:\"%h %ad | %s%d [%an]\" --graph --date=short
  type = cat-file -t
  dump = cat-file -p

Using a different user¶

You will first need to change the username and email in ~/.gitconfig file

# This is Git's per-user configuration file.
[user]
    name = Sarthak Narayan
    email = sarthak.narayang@gmail.com
# Please adapt and uncomment the following lines:
#   name = Sarthak Narayan
#   email = sarthaknarayan@Sarthaks-MacBook-Air.local

Then after getting the token from your GitHub account you will need to to add it to ~/.gitcredentials file
```
https://<user-name>:<key>@github.com
```

Last updated: 2022-06-08