Overview

This may seem like taking time to do a lot of work that "aliases" could have easily handled, but no! This is way more. Some of these scripts have been programmed to combine a series of tasks into a single command, and/or handle edge cases; the commit script, for instance, takes care of staging selected files first before committing; rl (repolink) also handles the process of adding a remote link to the newly created repo, and making the first push to the remote repo.
More info on them in the Scripts section.

Installation

Clone the project into a .bash folder in your home directory:

$ mkdir ~/.bash
$ cd ~/.bash
$ git clone git@github.com:WessCoby/git-scripts.git
$ cd git-scripts

Then run the install.sh file:

# Make sure you are in the root directory (git-scripts).
$  ./install.sh

# If you get a "Permission Denied" error, change the file attribute to make it executable.
$ chmod u+x install.sh

# Then run again
$ ./install.sh

Reload bash (source ~/.bashrc) or exit and reopen the terminal.
That's it!!!

Updates

This Repo will be frequently updated with new quotes. Simply run gs-update to pull in new updates.

Usage

Using these scripts is quite simple.

Scripts

Commit

You don't have to use the '-m' flag with this script. All you have to do is pass the files (and/or directories) to be committed, separated by spaces, as arguments. You will be prompted to enter commit message. The specified files will be staged, then committed.

Examples

# Say you just need to commit a single file:
$ commit path/file-name

# Files and Directories
$ commit directory1/ path-to/another-file

# Everything
$ commit .

Edge Cases

• If you run command in a directory that isn't initialized yet, you will be prompted to initialize directory as a git repo.
• You will get an error if the file(s) passed do(es) not exist in the directory. But the command doesn't exit. You will be prompted to reenter file name(s).
• If you run the command with no argument passed, you will be prompted either to stage everything, or specify which files to commit.
• The command also handles or tracks deleted files (git add -u)

RL (Remote Link)

One of the known ways of creating a Github repo for your project is creating an empty repository on Github, and adding it's remote link to your local repo, then pushing the local changes to the the repo. This process takes a few steps as is usually stated on Github after creating the project. This script simplifies the process. All you have to do is pass the remote link as argument to the command.

# Add remote link and push committed files and directorries
$ rl remote-repository-link
# NB: Ensure that the files are already committed before you run this command

st (Status)

Simple. Git Status. Probably should have been an alias, this one 😉

# Git Status
$ st

Push

Pushing to remote repository.

# Push to master
$ push

# Push to another branch
$ push branch-name

Helper Scripts

These scripts are used by the main scripts.

• fe: Check if a file or path exists in the current directory
• gs-update: Pull in new updates from the remote repository
• errlog: Output a formatted error message

Contributing

Let's work together on this. Any form of contribution is welcome.