Git aliases for windows

So i just made a switch as you all know to a pretty great company which works with cars.

But while i got onboarded i was given a windows - weird i thought - maybe its just for start and then they will switch it with a mac as i have been working on till now i thought in my mind.

Fast forward to 2 months in and i got to know it is what i will be getting .

So being a crazy kid that i am i thought lets configure this machine as my mac used to be .

Turned out its also pretty easy to configure and so the first thing i like to do while setting any machine up for myself is installing git and then making my own aliases for all things (I know i am a lazy guy but yeah which dev isnt )

So let me show you how i did it for windows and how you can do so as well

First lets understand what aliases mean

As the name suggest its a shortcut for anything you want to have - in this case what i wanted is instead of writing

git checkout -b "feature/main"

i would rather like to do it this way

gch "feature/main"

less words to type - fast - but yeah most important is its pretty cool when you do it infront of anyone they be like

Anyways lets get started

Alright - first thing first

• Go to your terminal of choice (in my case powershell ) and type

if there already exists the file then you can skip the next step

• Since the file didnt exist you need to create one

• Now that the file is created you can do the following steps

Now inside of the file type your aliases like this

You can configure as per your convience - these above one's are the one's which i personally use.

you can add / remove as per your choice.

once done - save the file

Then reload the file using command

Close the terminal and open a new terminal

You are good to go now

You can enjoy the fun now .

I hope this brings value to your workflow and make it faster

Happy Coding .