Various git aliases

git-aliases.txt

# [alias] has been improved to where you don't need explicit sh calls.
# And, as long as you don't need argument processing, you can just
# alias to whatever you would type after 'git'.

[alias]
    # Pretty-printed tree view of the commit history
    # Can't remember where I found the incantation
    logtree = log --graph --all --oneline --decorate=full
    
    # Same as logtree, but adds timestamps for each commit
    logtreed = log --graph --all --oneline --decorate=full --pretty=format:'%C(auto)%h%d (%cI) %s'
    
    # Show the timestamps for all of the commits where a file was modified
    # git recipe from https://stackoverflow.com/a/2390382/4376000
    # bash-function alias syntax from https://www.atlassian.com/blog/git/advanced-git-aliases
    filedates = "!f() { git log --follow --format='%h %ad %s' --date default -- $1; }; f"

    # Mimics GitHub's `/compare/`. Pass it a double- or triple-dot spec between two 
    # refs of interest.
    cmp = "!f() { git log $1 --graph --oneline --decorate=full --boundary; }; f"
    
    # Shortcut for the incantation needed to consolidate fixup commits
    fixup = rebase -i --autosquash