Useful git aliases

18th February, 2023

Some git aliases I find useful and add to most of my development environments:

hist gives a slightly prettier version of the standard log
graphviz creates a graphviz importable log
lg pretty console based logging
sweep remove local copies of branches that have already been merged to master or develop

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[alias]
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  hist = log --oneline --decorate --graph
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  graphviz = "!f() { echo 'digraph git {' ; git log --pretty='format:  %h -> { %p }' \"$@\" | sed 's/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]*/\"&\"/g' ; echo '}'; }; f"
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  lg = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)' --all
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  sweep = "!f() { git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{print $1}' | xargs -r git branch -D; }; f"