Git Tricks

A few of my favorite tricks with GIT.

Creating a new branch and switching to it

git checkout -b <branch-name>

Git pushup

This is an alias you put in your .gitconfig

[alias]
  pushup = !git push --set-upstream origin `git symbolic-ref --short HEAD`

Now you can push a branch to remote using git pushup.

Finding a commit

In this one I’m looking for all Merged PRs.

Powershell

git log --all --oneline | Select-String -Pattern 'Merged PR \d+'

Linux

git log --all --oneline | egrep 'Merged PR [[:digit:]]+'

Which branches have a commit

git branch --contains <git-commit>

Remove branches merged in main

Add the following to your powershell profile

function Remove-MergedBranches
{
  git branch --merged |
    ForEach-Object { $_.Trim() } |
    Where-Object {$_ -NotMatch "^\*"} |
    Where-Object {-not ( $_ -Like "*master" )} |
    Where-Object {-not ( $_ -Like "*main" )} |
    ForEach-Object { git branch -d $_ }
}

Now after (you perform git pull) you can remove all old branches that are merged in another branch.

Remove-MergedBranches