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Git Bash on Windows: adding a permanent alias

Hafiz Jaafar on July 28, 2020

If you are using Git Bash on Windows and you're used to Linux bash commands, chances are that you'd like to add aliases that help making your jobs ...

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korey 🇳🇬 • Jun 10 '21 • Edited

thanks for this.

a little thing to note is this works while navigating in bash

cd /c/'Program Files'/Git/etc/profile.d
not
cd /c/Program Files/Git/etc/profile.d as this one won't work in bash

Max • Nov 9 '22

also to note: my git installation was in the AppData folder, so my path looked like this:

"%LocalAppData%\Programs\Git\etc\profile.d\aliases.sh" OR "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\profile.d\aliases.sh" OR "~/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/profile.d/aliases.sh" OR "/c/Users/<username>/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/profile.d/aliases.sh"

natank • Jun 13 '21

Note: place the equal sign ('=') immediately after the alias without any spaces.
Examples:

alias k = 'kubectl' // not working
alias k= 'kubectl' // working

Prateek Aher • Mar 14 '21

Dude, you're a lifesaver.

Abiruzzaman Molla • Aug 10

Tired of typing git add . && git commit -m "msg" && git push every time?
I made a gitupdate() Bash function that does it all — with colours & a spinner.

-Stage
-Commit
-Push

One line in Git Bash.
gitupdate "commit message" [branch]

gitupdate() { commitMessage="$1" branch="$2" if [ -z "$commitMessage" ]; then echo -e "\033[31mError:\033[0m Commit message is required." echo "Usage: gitupdate \"commit message\" [branch]" return 1 fi echo -e "\n\033[33mExecuting gitupdate command with the following actions:\033[0m" echo " - Staging all changes in the repository." echo " - Committing changes with message '$commitMessage'." if [ -n "$branch" ]; then echo -e " - Pushing changes to branch '\033[33m$branch\033[0m'." else echo -e " - Pushing changes to the current branch." fi echo -e "\n\033[36mCurrent Git status:\033[0m" git status echo -e "\n\033[32mStaging all changes...\033[0m" spin & SPIN_PID=$! trap "kill -9 $SPIN_PID" $(seq 0 15) git add . kill -9 $SPIN_PID 2>/dev/null echo -e "\nFiles added to staging area successfully." echo -e "\n\033[35mCommitting changes with message '$commitMessage'...\033[0m" spin & SPIN_PID=$! trap "kill -9 $SPIN_PID" $(seq 0 15) git commit -m "$commitMessage" kill -9 $SPIN_PID 2>/dev/null echo -e "\nChanges committed successfully." if [ -n "$branch" ]; then echo -e "\n\033[33mPushing changes to branch '$branch'...\033[0m" spin & SPIN_PID=$! trap "kill -9 $SPIN_PID" $(seq 0 15) git push origin "$branch" kill -9 $SPIN_PID 2>/dev/null else echo -e "\n\033[32mPushing changes to current branch...\033[0m" spin & SPIN_PID=$! trap "kill -9 $SPIN_PID" $(seq 0 15) git push kill -9 $SPIN_PID 2>/dev/null fi echo -e "\n\033[36mChanges pushed successfully.\033[0m" echo -e "\n\033[36mUpdated Git status:\033[0m" git status } # Spinner animation for bash spin() { local spinner='-\|/' while :; do for i in $(seq 0 3); do printf "\b${spinner:$i:1}" sleep 0.1 done done } # Alias for convenience alias gitupdate="gitupdate"

Sekti Wicaksono • Jun 19 '21

I always use ll with

alias ll='ls -lash'

Binaya Shrestha • Aug 3 '23 • Edited

thanks a lot.
also worked multi-line alias like this:

dcosql() { cd ~ cd /d/dio/dio-scripts/docker/development/ docker-compose up -d mssql }

Ademir Diamente Júnior • Apr 9 '21

Tks, dude! It really helped me 😁

cuneyter • Apr 5 '21

Thank you. That is a great help :)

Cornea Florin • Apr 19 '21

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!!

Roberto Bocio Melo • Jul 10 '22

thanks for this, my workflow thanks you ❤️

Christopher Thompson • Nov 22 '23

Great little bit of advice! Totally worked for me. Thank you. :D

Decent Coder • Sep 21 '22

Aliases can be created using git config command as well, without actually opening the git files.

yuly • Nov 30 '23

so helpful, thanks