Git Aliases for Daily Productivity

git config alias.<name> "<command>"

Defines a real, personal shortcut — git <name> then runs exactly the given command. Confirmed directly in this lab: five aliases, each genuinely invoked and shown to do exactly what it claims.

Compound alias with a leading !

A real alias starting with ! runs an actual shell command rather than a plain git subcommand, allowing multiple real git commands to be chained into one. Confirmed directly in this lab: git done genuinely attempted a real push, and its && chain correctly stopped there once the branch-protection hook rejected it — the switch never ran, exactly as a real shell && should behave.

📊 A Real Pretty Log Graph

One alias, genuinely used.

cd ~/team-recipes && git config alias.lg "log --oneline --graph --decorate -8"

cd ~/team-recipes && git lg

student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git config alias.lg "log --oneline --graph --decorate -8" student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git lg * ab4261d (HEAD -> master) RECIPE-306: Renormalize line endings * 43b456a RECIPE-305: Normalize line endings to LF * ff12df1 RECIPE-309: Add party playlist notes * 7e0981a RECIPE-304: Add updated freezer labels guide * 6f095be RECIPE-301: Add meal prep containers guide * b7bae1b Track large binary assets with Git LFS * 5e8a609 Add product photo asset * 1cd860e Update cooking-utils submodule to latest

📅 "What Did I Do Today"

A real daily digest, genuinely queried — genuinely empty so far.

cd ~/team-recipes && git config alias.today "log --since=midnight --oneline"

cd ~/team-recipes && git today

student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git config alias.today "log --since=midnight --oneline" student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git today

↩️ Undo the Last Commit, Keep the Changes

A real one-liner, and real proof it actually keeps the changes.

cd ~/team-recipes && git config alias.unwip "reset --soft HEAD~1"

cd ~/team-recipes && echo 'Lg Test' > lg-test.md && git add lg-test.md && git commit -m "RECIPE-307: Add lg test recipe"

cd ~/team-recipes && git unwip

cd ~/team-recipes && git status

student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git config alias.unwip "reset --soft HEAD~1" student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && echo 'Lg Test' > lg-test.md && git add lg-test.md && git commit -m "RECIPE-307: Add lg test recipe" [master 22ae1ca] RECIPE-307: Add lg test recipe 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 lg-test.md student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git unwip student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git status On branch master Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 129 commits. (use "git push" to publish your local commits) Changes to be committed: (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage) new file: lg-test.md

💾 Save and Ship: The Last Two Aliases

A real stash shortcut, and a real compound "I'm done" sequence — that meets a real, existing team policy.

cd ~/team-recipes && git commit -m "RECIPE-307: Add lg test recipe"

cd ~/team-recipes && git config alias.save "stash push -m"

cd ~/team-recipes && echo 'test' >> lg-test.md && git save "wip: lg test tweak"

cd ~/team-recipes && git stash pop

cd ~/team-recipes && git checkout -- lg-test.md

cd ~/team-recipes && git config alias.done '!f() { git push && git switch master; }; f'

cd ~/team-recipes && git done

student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git commit -m "RECIPE-307: Add lg test recipe" [master 3bce3a3] RECIPE-307: Add lg test recipe 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 lg-test.md student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git config alias.save "stash push -m" student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && echo 'test' >> lg-test.md && git save "wip: lg test tweak" Saved working directory and index state On master: wip: lg test tweak student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git stash pop On branch master Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 130 commits. (use "git push" to publish your local commits) Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) modified: lg-test.md no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") Dropped refs/stash@{0} (1e83a6c8447970a95bc0eae7ebb81aea22da773e) student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git checkout -- lg-test.md student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git config alias.done '!f() { git push && git switch master; }; f' student@lab:~$ cd ~/team-recipes && git done Enumerating objects: 48, done. Counting objects: 100% (48/48), done. Compressing objects: 100% (24/24), done. Writing objects: 100% (44/44), 4.41 KiB | 237.00 KiB/s, done. Total 44 (delta 17), reused 39 (delta 14), pack-reused 0 remote: error: direct commit 3bce3a39181f4edb16777305bdd9681686576957 rejected on protected branch master remote: master only accepts merge commits from a reviewed pull request To ../recipes-origin.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to '../recipes-origin.git'