I have been tired of doing git add & git commit everyday
I know in Linux you can just edit your bashrc using 1 line command
But since I use windows I am having a hard time creating an alias for
Fucntion gcd {
Insert("git commit")
}
Set-Alias gcm gcd
But I get an error
Set-Alias : Alias is not writeable because alias gcm is read-only or constant and cannot be written to.
I also tried without using Insert Keyword even without functions still getting an error
You don't need to rely on your specific shell for aliases, since Git already supports them out of the box:
If you don’t want to type the entire text of each of the Git commands, you can easily set up an alias for each command using
git config.
Git aliases are defined in the .gitconfig file, either globally or for a particular repository.
In your case, you can create a global alias for git commit by saying:
git config --global alias.gcd commit
.gitconfig file, it will be available in all sessions for the current user.You can create PowerShell profile that autorun when open PowerShell First open PowerShell and create PowerShell profile (If you don't already have one):
New-Item -Type file -Path $PROFILE -Force
This command will create directory in Documents call WindowsPowerShell inside this directory will create file call Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
If you want to know the full path of Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 write this command:
$PROFILE
Open it from PowerShell with this command
powershell_ise.exe $PROFILE
And write all commands that you want to alias it for example:
function gn{git init}
# @args you can pass multi arguments for example
# ga fileName1 fileName2
function add{git add @args}
function commit { git commit -m @args }
function gac{git add .;git commit -m @args}
function gpm{git push origin master}
function pull{git pull origin master}
function gl{git log}
function glo{git log --oneline}
function gch{git checkout @args}
# @args is optional to add argument
function gb{git branch @args}
function gs{git status}
function gd{git diff}
Save it And close PowerShell, Open it again and call alias commands by function name for example initialize git repository write this command:
gn
To add files write this commands
add fileName1
See GIF image
To show content of alias commands write this command:
Get-Content $PROFILE
Why don't you just try tu use posh-git
posh-git is a PowerShell module that integrates Git and PowerShell by providing Git status summary information that can be displayed in the PowerShell prompt, e.g.:
C:\Users\Keith\GitHub\posh-git [main ≡ +0 ~1 -0 | +0 ~1 -0 !]>
posh-git also provides tab completion support for common git commands, branch names, paths and more. For example, with posh-git, PowerShell can tab complete git commands like checkout by typing git ch and pressing the tab key. That will tab complete to git checkout and if you keep pressing tab, it will cycle through other command matches such as cherry and cherry-pick. You can also tab complete remote names and branch names e.g.: git pull or ma tab completes to git pull origin main.
$Profile.