Git aliases

.bashrc

# Display the status of the current branch
alias gs="git status"

# Display a list of branches on your local machine
alias gb="git branch"

# Add all files to the staging area
alias ga="git add ."

# Commit staged files with a message
alias gc="git commit -m"

# Add all files to the staging area and commit them with a message
alias gac="git add . && git commit -m"

# Checkout to a new branch
alias gnew="git checkout -b"

### functions can also be called from the command line,
### which is kind of like an alias, but with advanced capabilities

# Pull the latest changes from a remote branch
# (current by default, or you can speficy which specific branch you'd like to pull from)
function gpull () {
  if [ -z "$1" ]
    then
      git pull origin `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
    else
      git pull origin $1
  fi
}

# Push the local changes to the remote branch
# (current branch by default, or you can specify a different one)
function gpush () {
  if [ -z "$1" ]
    then
      git push origin `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
    else
      git push origin $1
  fi
}

# Checkout to a different branch and pull the latest changes from it automatically
function ch() { git checkout $1; gpull; }