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What characters can I use in a Git alias? For example can "my.branch" or "@mine" be aliases?
Is there a way to make the aliases case sensitive? ex: myBranch
The alias documentaion does not list acceptable characters or anything about case sensitivity.
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Git aliases are a powerful workflow tool that create shortcuts to frequently used Git commands. Using Git aliases will make you a faster and more efficient developer. Aliases can be used to wrap a sequence of Git commands into new faux Git command.
Alias is a term associated with shortcuts in Git. It compresses the longer sequence of commands to a shorter sequence. It is always better to apply aliases to the frequently used longer commands since it helps in increasing efficiency.
The simplest way to add a git alias is by running a command to add the alias to the git global configuration file. For example, running the command git config --global alias. hist "log --pretty=format:'%h %ad | %s%d [%an]' --graph --date=short" will add the alias git hist .
To create an alias in Git bash, we need to use the “git config” command followed by the “—global” option, an alias to be created, and an original git command in a single instruction.
Your git aliases are often stored per your user's configuration at ~/. gitconfig . You can also manually set aliases using, for example, the command git config alias. s 'status -s' .
man git-config says:
The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters and -, and must start with an alphabetic character.
For those who want to use a dot (.) as part of the variable name, the same man page also says:
The variables are divided into sections, wherein the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last dot.
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