tw3/gdbak alias

Created January 27, 2022 17:22

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Bash alias that does a git diff to see the files that have changed and creates a tarball of those files in a separate folder. Useful if you want to manually backup your diffs.

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gdbak alias

alias gdbak='GDBAK_FILENAME="../../temp/diff-bak-$(date +%s%3N)_$(git branch --show-current).tar"; tar cvf "${GDBAK_FILENAME}" `git diff --name-only`; echo "${GDBAK_FILENAME}"'

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tw3 commented Jan 27, 2022

Of course you should change the prefix for "GDBAK_FILENAME" as needed

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