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easy-git - `esgit`

CLI package with simplified aliases for git commands.

The problem

git can be easy to use sometimes, but some other times, it's complex. This requires googling or stackoverflow.

The solution

esgit! esgit provides simpler aliases which makes working with git easy. The simplicity is also aided by an interactive autocomplete platfrom by enquirer for selection and autocompletion of commands. Added to this is that the real git commands are shown right there in the terminal before execution.

Note that esgit's command are not executed. These are just aliases that trigger the real git commands.

Benefits

It makes working with git easier, plus, you learn git.
You do not have to switch between esgit and git for different situations. You're probably thinking, "If I want to use a simple alias provided by this package, I'd use it, but if I want to just clone a repository, I'd use git". But it isn't necessary. When esgit cannot execute a command (which is not provided in its list), it hands over the commands to git to execute. This way, esgit sorts of does all git does.

Usage

Installation

It can be installed with npm which means you must have node installed for npm to be available.

npm i -g esgit

The g flag is important so that the package can be used as a CLI command.

Examples

You can enter esgit in your terminal to show the list of commands which you can choose from. When you do so, you see the commands displayed like this:

Or you can type the command directly in the terminal if you know them.

To change your last commit message

    esgit edit-commit "new message here"

Result:

git-command: git commit --amend -m "new message here"
#  the result

Remove last commit from master and keep the changes

esgit remove-last-master-commit-keep-changes

Result:

git-command: git reset HEAD~ --hard
# the result

Cloning a git repository isn't hard, but let's assume that esgit does not have it in its list:

esgit clone <url> <folder>

Result:

esgit: 'clone' does not exist
Attempting to do 'git clone <url> <folder>'
# clone status and done!

Some of the commands are long, because this package aims for simplicity and easy understanding of action to be executed. Moreover, you can just get all the commands by just entering esgit command.

To know what a command does, simply enter the following: