Git alias for combining multiple commands: git checkout and git status

Question

I find that every time I checkout a local branch, I do a git status. I want to add a git status to my alias for checkout to be more efficient.

I already have the following simple alias for checkout:

alias.co=checkout

I'd like to modify it so that no matter what arguments I provide to 'git co', it will always perform:

git co && git st

So for example, I could any of the following, and the alias should perform a git status afterwards:

git co -b newbranch
git co anotherbranch
git co -b andanother --track newbranch
git co -- "*.c"

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '14 at 14:39

4

To run multiple Git commands in an alias you'll need to modify your alias to use !, which runs a shell command, e.g.:

[alias]
    co = "!git checkout \"$@\" && git status"

The $@ should propagate any arguments to git co through to git checkout.

answered Jun 25 '14 at 14:39

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 25 '14 at 14:39

You're probably better off writing a bash script for something like this. Something like:

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $# == 0]]
then
    echo 'No branch name'
    exit 1
fi
git checkout "$*"
git status

Then whatever you save that file as will be the commands name, and then the first command would be the name of the branch.

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