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 title: My Two favorite Git Aliases
 date: 2013-04-28 12:00:00
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I’m a big fan of Git. It is a super easy-to-use version control and
source code management system. Before I came to Git, though, I used
Mercurial, and there were two commands that I missed. Through a lot
of Googling, I came across two Git aliases that have changed
everything for me: `incoming` and `outgoing`.

## `$` git incoming

The `git incoming` alias will return a nicely formatted list of
incoming commits, the next time you do a pull.

```
$ git incoming
621d0eb - Developer Name - (origin/master, origin/HEAD) Commit
Message - 2 days ago
31d6367 - Developer Name - CommitMessage - 2 days ago
```

## `$` git outgoing

The `git outgoing` alias will return a nicely formatted list of
outgoing commits, the next time you do a push.

```
$ git outgoing
9a0af47 - Developer Name - (HEAD, master) Update message - 5
seconds ago
b903948 - Developer Name - Update message - 6 minutes ago
```

## Setup

To add the aliases, put the following in your `.gitconfig` file
(typically located in your home directory):

```
[alias]
incoming = !(git fetch --quiet && git log
--pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%h %C(white)- %C(red)%an %C(white)-
%C(cyan)%d%Creset %s %C(white)- %ar%Creset' ..$(git rev-parse
–abbrev-ref –symbolic-full-name @{u}))
outgoing = !(git fetch --quiet && git log
--pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%h %C(white)- %C(red)%an %C(white)-
%C(cyan)%d%Creset %s %C(white)- %ar%Creset' $(git rev-parse
–abbrev-ref –symbolic-full-name @{u})..)
```


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