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Badass git pull alternative

Add this little snippet to your ~/.gitconfig and it amps up your git pull by means of git up

1. Adds in a list of the commits you're pulling down
2. Auto-prunes remote branches
3. Defaults to pull --rebase - gets rid of unnecessary merge commits. If you don't know what rebase does, this is probably safe for you. If you know what rebase does, you should know where this will not be safe for you.

Scott Chacon and Ryan Tomayko basically figured out how to do this and I am stealing all of the credit.

.gitconfig

[alias]
  up = !sh -c 'git pull --rebase --prune && git log --pretty=format:\"%Cred%ae %Creset- %C(yellow)%s %Creset(%ar)\" HEAD@{1}..'

example_output

main_site(mirroring) % git up
Updating 83856d9..3753172
Fast forward
 app/controllers/repositories_controller.rb |    2 ++
 app/views/repositories/new_mirror.html.erb |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
ryan@github.com - Handle creating mirror when mirror repo form submitted (2 days ago)