Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

It's very simple and straightforward to create an alias. You simply need to configure it with git config.

What we will do is check a branch and then create its aliases one by one and execute them to view their output by performing the following steps:

1. So, we will start by checking a branch named gitAlias, which tracks the origin/stable-3.2 branch:

$ git checkout -b gitAlias --track origin/stable-3.2
Branch gitAlias set up to track remote branch stable-3.2 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'gitAlias'

2. After this, we can start creating some aliases. We will start with the following one, which will simply just amend your commit:

$ git config alias.amm 'commit --amend'

3. Executing this alias will open the commit message ...