List Git aliases

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How do I print a list of my git aliases  i e   something analogous to the bash alias command

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for windows   git config --list   findstr  alias

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As of git 2 18 you can use git --list-cmds alias

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Using git var and filtering only those that start with alias   git var -l   grep -e   alias

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The following works under Linux  MacOSX and Windows  with msysgit    Use git la to show aliases in  gitconfig  Did I hear  bash scripting       About the  not needed  part in a comment above  I basically created a man page like overview for my aliases  Why all the fuss  Isn t that complete overkill   Read on     I have set the commands like this in my  gitconfig  separated like TAB TAB    alias          alias1                         foo -x -y --z-option         alias2                         bar -y --z-option --set-something   and simply defined another alias to grep the TAB  part of the defined aliases   All other options don t have tabs before and after the     in their definition  just spaces    Comments not appended to an alias also have a TAB      appended  so they are shown after grepping   For better viewing I am piping the grep output into less  like this   basic version   black white       gitconfig    alias            use  git h  lt command gt   for help  use  git la  to list aliases                h           help       lt git-command-in-question gt          la            grep   t      gitconfig   less     The   t   part matches TAB    To have an even better overview of what aliases I have  and since I use the bash console  I colored the output with terminal colors    all     are printed in red all     are printed in green   advanced version   colored          la                grep   t      gitconfig   sed -e  s      0 31m    0m g    sed -e  s        0 32m amp    0m g    less -R    Basically the same as above  just sed usage is added to get the color codes into the output   The -R flag of less is needed to get the colors shown in less    I recently found out  that long commands with a scrollbar under their window are not shown correctly on mobile devices  They text is cut off and the scrollbar is simply missing  That might be the case with the last code snippet here  keep that in mind when looking at code snippets here while on the go      Why get such magic to work   I have a like half a mile of aliases  tailored to my needs  Also some of them change over time  so after all the best idea to have an up-to-date list at hand is parsing the  gitconfig   A     short     excerpt from my  gitconfig aliases          choose                 a               add          aa              add       ai              add -i        unchoose               rm              rm -r      unversion and delete     rmc             rm -r --cached      unversion  but leave in working copy        do             c               commit -m          fc              commit -am  fastcommit      ca              commit -am          mc              commit   think  message-commit      mca             commit -a     cam             commit --amend -C HEAD   update last commit        undo           r               reset --hard HEAD     rv              revert HEAD   In my linux or mac workstations also further aliases exist in the  bashrc s  sort of like     bashrc alias g  git  alias gh  git h  alias gla  git la  function gc   git c          this is handy  just type  gc this is my commitmessage  at prompt   That way no need to type git help submodule  no need for git h submodule  just gh submodule is all that is needed to get the help  It is just some characters  but how often do you type them   I use all of the following  of course only with shortcuts       add commit commit --amend reset --hard HEAD push fetch rebase checkout branch show-branch  in a lot of variations  shortlog reflog diff  in variations  log  in a lot of variations  status show notes       This was just from the top of my head   I often have to use git without a gui  since a lot of the git commands are not implemented properly in any of the graphical frontends  But everytime I put them to use  it is mostly in the same manner   On the  not implemented  part mentioned in the last paragraph  I have yet to find something that compares to this in a GUI  sba         show-branch --color always -a --more 10 --no-name - show all local and remote branches as well as the commits they have within them ccm           git reset --soft HEAD   amp  amp  git commit  - change last commit message  From a point of view that is more simple  How often do you type git add   or git commit -am        Not counting even the rest    Getting things to work like git aa or git ca       in windows  or with bash aliases gaa g aa or gca       g ca       in linux and on mac s     For my needs it seemed a smart thing to do  to tailor git commands like this         and for easier use I just helped myself for lesser used commands  so i dont have to consult the man pages everytime  Commands are predefined and looking them up is as easy as possible   I mean  we are programmers after all  Getting things to work like we need them is our job   Here is an additional screenshot  this works in Windows     BONUS  If you are on linux or mac  colorized man pages can help you quite a bit   colorized man pages

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If you know the name of the alias  you can use the --help option to describe it  For example     git sa --help  git sa  is aliased to  stash     git a --help  git a  is aliased to  add

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I like  Thomas s answer  and I do some modifications  features   add color and input parameter   to let the user choose command  from git config --get-regexp     add filter     gitconfig   alias      show-cmd    quot  f               sep  quot   quot             name   1 -alias            echo -n -e    033 48 2 255 255 01m             echo -n -e    033 38 2 255 0 01m             echo  quot  name quot             echo -n -e    033 m             git config --get-regexp   name      2              cut -c 1-40             sed -e s   name              -e s          printf  sep --   gt                  column -t -s   printf  sep              sort -k 1           f quot   USAGE  git show-cmd list alias git show-cmd  quot  quot  st  list alias  and it should contain the string st git show-cmd i18n  show i18n setting git show-cmd core editor  show core setting  and it should contain editor  DEMO  It s working fine on windows too Explanation  you can write the long script on  gitconfig use the syntax as below   alias      your-cmd    quot  f                        f quot    name   1 -alias   same as name    1 if  1 else -alias  echo -n -e   see more echo   -n   Do not output a trailing newline  -e Enable interpretation of the following backslash-escaped      033 38 2 255 0 01m   see more SGR parameters     033 48    48 means background color    033 38 2 255 0 0m   38 means fore color  255 0 0   Red   cut -c 1-40 To avoid your command is too long  so take 40 char only   sed -e  s be replace string new string    replace string to new string    if you want to put the special-char such as space   gt       should add    as the prefix   column -t -s   printf  sep   formats all lines into an evenly spaced column table   sort -k 1 sorts all lines based on the value in the first column

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Yet another git alias  called alias  that prints out git aliases  add the following to your gitconfig  alias  section    alias        lists aliases matching a regular expression     alias     f     git config --get-regexp   alias   1         f    Example usage  giving full alias name  matches alias name exactly  i e    foobar    and simply shows the value     git alias st alias st status -s    git alias dif alias dif diff   Or  give regexp  which shows all matching aliases  amp  values      git alias  dif    alias dif diff alias difs diff --staged alias difh diff HEAD alias difr diff   u  alias difl diff --name-only    git alias    ing  alias incoming  git remote update -p  git log     u  alias outgoing log   u      Caveats  quote the regexp to prevent shell expansion as a glob  although it s not technically necessary if when no files match the pattern  Also  any regexp is fine  except    pattern start  and    pattern end  can t be used  they are implied  Assumes you re not using git-alias from git-extras   Also  obviously your aliases will be different  these are just a few that I have configured   Perhaps you ll find them useful  too

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There is a built-in function    try      git aliases   lists all the aliases

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As other answers mentioned  git config -l lists all your configuration details from your config file  Here s a partial example of that output for my configuration       alias force push -f alias wd diff --color-words alias shove push -f alias gitignore  git ls-files -i --exclude-from  gitignore   xargs git rm --cached alias branches  git remote show origin   grep  w  s  new  tracked  -E core repositoryformatversion 0 core filemode false core bare false       So we can grep out the alias lines  using git config -l   grep alias   alias force push -f alias wd diff --color-words alias shove push -f alias gitignore  git ls-files -i --exclude-from  gitignore   xargs git rm --cached alias branches  git remote show origin   grep  w  s  new  tracked  -E   We can make this prettier by just cutting out the alias  part of each line  leaving us with this command   git config -l   grep alias   cut -c 7-   Which prints   force push -f wd diff --color-words shove push -f gitignore  git ls-files -i --exclude-from  gitignore   xargs git rm --cached branches  git remote show origin   grep  w  s  new  tracked  -E   Lastly  don t forget to add this as an alias   git config --global alias la   git config -l   grep alias   cut -c 7-    Enjoy

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git config --get-regexp alias

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I mentioned in June 2018 with  quot overview list - most used git commands quot  the Git 2 18  quot use --list-cmds alias  commit 3301d36  quot   that carej reports in his answer   git --list-cmds alias  In addition of that or of git config --get-regexp alias  you can combine its output with git help  whose output will change with Git 2 14 x 2 15    quot git help co quot  now says  quot co is aliased to     quot   not  quot git co is quot    See commit b3a8076  12 Sep 2017  by Kaartic Sivaraam  sivaraam    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 5079cc8  25 Sep 2017   help  change a message to be more precise When the user tries to use  --help  option on an aliased command information about the alias is printed as shown below     git co --help  git co  is aliased to  checkout    This doesn t seem correct as the user has aliased only  co  and not  git co   This might even be incorrect in cases in which the user has used an alias like  tgit      tgit co --help  git co  is aliased to  checkout

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This answer builds upon the answer by johnny  It applies if you re not using git-alias from git-extras   On Linux  run once   git config --global alias alias    git config --get-regexp  alias     sed -e s  alias     -e s              This will create a permanent git alias named alias which gets stored in your    gitconfig file  Using it will list all of your git aliases  in nearly the same format as they are in the    gitconfig file  To use it  type     git alias loga   log --graph --decorate --name-status --all alias     git config --get-regexp  alias     sed -e s  alias     -e s             The following considerations apply    To prevent the alias alias from getting listed as above  append   grep -v   alias   just before the closing double-quote  I don t recommend this so users don t forget that the the command alias is but an alias and is not a feature of git  To sort the listed aliases  append   sort just before the closing double-quote  Alternatively  you can keep the aliases in    gitconfig sorted  To add the alias as a system-wide alias  replace --global  for current user  with --system  for all users   This typically goes in the  etc gitconfig file

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Search or show all aliases Add to your  gitconfig under  alias   aliases    git config --list   grep  alias      cut -c 7-   grep -Ei --color   quot  1  quot   quot   quot   Then you can do  git aliases - show ALL aliases git aliases commit - only aliases containing  quot commit quot

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I use this alias in my global    gitconfig       gitconfig   alias      aliases    git config --get-regexp  alias      sed -e s  alias    -e s          printf     043   --   gt        column -t -s   printf     043      sort -k 1   to produce the following output    git aliases aliases   -- gt   git config --get-regexp  alias     sed -e s  alias    -e s        printf   043  --  gt       column -t -s   printf   043     sort -k 1 ci        -- gt  commit -v cim       -- gt  commit -m co        -- gt  checkout logg      -- gt  log --graph --decorate --oneline pl        -- gt  pull st        -- gt  status           -- gt         Note  This works for me in git bash on Windows  For other terminals you may need to adapt the escaping      Explanation    git config --get-regexp  alias    prints all lines from git config that start with alias  sed -e s  alias    removes alias  from the line sed -e s          printf     043   --   gt      replaces the first occurrence of a space with      printf     043   --   gt   which evaluates to  -- gt    column -t -s   printf     043    formats all lines into an evenly spaced column table  The character   printf     043    which evaluates to   is used as separator  sort -k 1 sorts all lines based on the value in the first column     printf    043     This just prints the character    hex 043  which is used for column separation  I use this little hack so the aliases alias itself does not literally contain the   character  Otherwise it would replace those   characters when printing  Note  Change this to another character if you need aliases with literal   signs

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Another alternative  purely something I find easy to remember    git config --list   grep alias

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Both Works Well 1 - Using Get Regex   git config --get-regexp alias  2 - Using list   git config --list   grep alias

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I created a git alias called  strangely enough  alias for exactly this purpose    handy from time to time if you use aliasing enough       git config --global alias alias  config --get-regexp  alias     Note  the regex makes sure the line starts with alias

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