This is a quick tip I learned recently and it allowed me to improve mygit workflow a bit more.

Here’s a new part of my.gitconfig:

[alias]    main=!git checkout main&& git pull--no-tagssync=!git main&& git switch -    fuse=!gitsync&& git rebase main

This week I added these three alias to my.gitconfig but, if you notice, they are not “regular” alias.The! at their beginning tells Git that these are not alias to Git commands, but rather bash commands.

This gives you a simple but powerful way to chain executions, so I created three related alias that I can call depending on my goal:

• If I finished working on a branch and I want to get back tomain and start with the most recent codebase, I’ll rungit main. Notice the--no-tags, this is motivated by working on alarge monorepo and not needing all the tags of the packages we keep updating;
• If I’m working on a branch and I want to quickly get any changes made to ourmain branch but come back to the branch I’m in right now, I’ll callgit sync. As a note,git switch - gets you back to the branch you were before you moved to the current branch you are now;
• Finally, if I want to bring the current branch I’m at up to speed with the latest code we’ve shipped, I’ll usegit fuse. It will do everything I described on the other commands so farand rebase ourmain branch onto the current branch I’m at.

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