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Recently I added two new bash/zsh aliases to make my git experience just a tad better.
trackme
Most of our work repos were recently migrated to new remote urls, we scriped
out the update to all of the repos, but I was left with a tracking error for
all of my open branches. To easily resolve this I just made an alias so that I
can just run trackme anytime I see this error.
There is no tracking information for the current branch. Please specify which branch you want to merge with. See git-pull(1) for details git pull <remote> <branch> If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with: git branch --set-upstream develop origin/<branch>
getting the branch
The following command will always return the currently checked out branch name.
git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
Injecting this into the suggested git command as a subshell gives us this
alias that when ran with trackme will automatically fix tracking for my
branch.
alias trackme='git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)'
rebasemain
I sometimes get a bit lazy at checking main for changes before submitting any prs, so again I made a quick shell alias that will rebase main into my branch before I open a pr.
alias rebasemain='git pull origin main --rebase'
The Aliases
Here are both of the alias's, feel free to steal and modify them into your
dotfiles. If you are uniniatiated a common starting place to put these is
either in your ~/.bashrch or ~/.zshrc depending on your shell of choice.
alias trackme='git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)' alias rebasemain='git pull origin main --rebase'