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You can create aliases both on the repo level and globally just by adding or omitting the --global flag.

Creating aliases is easy. Just type git config --global alias.co checkout to create a global alias for git checkout. Now, all you have to do is type git co develop. Awesome, right?

Some commands have flags you can add. For example, the checkout command allows you to optionally create and checkout a new branch with the -b flag. Git handles these aliases with ease by just surrounding the command with quotes. I like to use cob for that.

git config --global alias.cob "checkout -b"

Now, to create a new branch, I just type git cob new_branch_name.

Here are some of my favorite aliases:

st status
co checkout
cob checkout -b
lol log --oneline

If you want to chain commands together, which begin with git, you have to prefix that with a bang (!).

Say I wanted to stash my changes and do a pull in one command. Let's call this alias "shelve". I would type the following:

git config --global alias.shelve "!git stash && git pull"

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Reference: git config