Mysterious alias: git up

[jessieay]

Hola --

I run git up about a zillion times a day. It fetches updates from master and rebases my current branch on top of those.

I always thought this alias came from the thoughtbot dotfiles...but now I cannot find it in here anywhere. This morning I updated my local dotfiles to contain the latest master from this repo, but I still have git up available and I do not see it when running git config --global --list

Does anyone know where this alias might be coming from? I am stumped!

[gylaz]

A lot of git aliases have been moved to binaries: https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles/tree/master/bin

[geoffharcourt]

Hi @jessieay!

It's not an alias, it's a git command, git-up.

[jessieay]

ooooh! so it is. Thank you for solving this mystery.

Now a related question: would there be an easy way to make this command know what my base branch is? Increasingly, I am working off of a base branch of develop which auto-deploys to staging when it passes CI. master auto-deploys to prod so we merge develop into master regularly.

This is not true for all of my projects so I wouldn't want to update the command to always assume a base branch of develop....but it would be nice if it were smart enough to rebase off of origin/develop rather than master on some repos...

[gylaz]

What I've done in the past is copy git-up into my project's bin/ (if you're sell is setup to prioritize that) and updated the script to point to origin/develop.

[croaky]

Hiiii @jessieay

[jessieay]

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