Convenient bits & bobs for Git

Git out-of-the-box isn't your best friend, git-convenience pulls together a few tools that make it that little bit more friendly. You get:

• Tab auto-completion
• A more useful command prompt
• Shortcuts to common operations

Works on OSX, Linux & Windows git-bash.

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Trial it in your current terminal session:

eval "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakearchibald/git-convenience/master/setup.sh) trial"

If it works for you, have it in all your terminals:

eval "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakearchibald/git-convenience/master/setup.sh)"

Shortcuts

• gwut - List all Git Convenience commands and prompt symbols
• gs - git status
• gaa - Add all changes (including untracted files) to staging
• gc "Message" - Commit all new files & changes with message
• goops - Add changes to previous commit & edit comessage
• gp - Pull (via rebase) then push
• gup - Pull (via rebase)
• glog - Decorated & graphed log
• glogo - As glog, including orphan commits
• gdiff - A word-diff of changes
• gclean - Compress & garbage collect data store

If you've installed the wonderful git-up (which you should), it'll be used instead of git pull --rebase.

Prompt

The prompt shows the current branch & among other helpful things:

• * - Uncommitted changes
• + - Staged changes
• % - Untracked files
• < - You're behind the origin
• > - You're ahead of the origin
• <> - You've diverged from the origin
• = - You're up-to-date with the origin

Other tools & props

• git-up - A brilliant tool for syncing branches
• git completion - The scripts used for the prompt & tab completion