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title: "🔱 Git Commands You Didn't Know"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/git-commands-you-didn-t-know-u1f6mkkqz
source_url: https://dephraiim.hashnode.dev/git-commands-you-didnt-know
type: article
source: "Hashnode"
published: 2020-09-27T19:18:56.135Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 20
comments: 2
language: en
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# 🔱 Git Commands You Didn't Know

**[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · 4 min read · 20 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Git supports aliases which means you can give your commands any name you want. I prefer to set aliases for really long commands to avoid searching for them everytime I need it. The alias config in Git works like this:git config --global alias .[new_alias] "[previous_git_command]"

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