It’s easy to create an alias or shortcut in GIT. You can easily save yourself valuable time and keystrokes by learning how to setup your own shortcuts with the most common examples below. Just copy and paste these commands into your GIT shell.
Shorten checkout command
git config --global alias.chk checkout
git chk will now be a shortcut for git checkout
Shorten commit command
git config --global alias.ci commit
git ci will now be a shortcut for git commit
Shorten status command
git config --global alias.st status
git st will now be a shortcut for git status
Shorten branch command
git config --global alias.br branch
git br will now be a shortcut for git branch