Techblog Archive

When I work on fixing bugs or adding new features I often add debug statements all over the place to debug something and find out where it goes wrong. Before I can then create a patch or commit the changes, I need to clean up the working tree first. Although a git diff can already help a lot, it's still tedious work to open the different files, look for debug statements and remove them. Luckily, git can do much more than just point out where the changes are.

Git is an awesome tool for version control. It is, however, not always very easy to use due to complicated or inconsistently named commands and arguments. One way to solve that problem is to set up a few aliases. In this tutorial, I'm going to explain how to do that and also show a few useful aliases that I use regularly.