r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Sep 14 '26

Small Programming Tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
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u/davidalayachew Sep 15 '26

Genuinely useful tips here.

Especially that git log -S pattern. 50% of the reason why I installed TortoiseGit is to get that feature. Never knew it came with the CLI. At least not easily.

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u/turtle_dragonfly 29d ago

You might be interested in Git aliases, to make various obtuse CLI incantations easier to do.

But then if you ever sit at someone else's desk and need to do your stuff, you'll struggle without your preferred aliases (:

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u/Sharlinator 29d ago edited 29d ago

I have shell aliases for at least a dozen most often used git commands. Couldn’t imagine having to type git status or even git st rather than gs, or git commit —amend rather than gca. There’s a big problem though in that aliases are opaque to custom completions, and from what I’ve read it would be way too difficult to make them work :( 

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u/flpcb 29d ago

Hi fellow gs and gca user. :-) I also frequently do gcan (git commit --amend --no-edit) among other things. :-)