Git info alias

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I do a lot of management of work and personal projects with git. I’ve been making shell and gitconfig aliases to make things that I do often quicker or to store logic of things that I won’t remember easily. One recent one that I really like is a git info (or g i) alias that shows status and a number of other bits of information about the repository quickly with one command. I’ve been using it in place of status most of the time.

My gitconfig (~/.gitconfig) in my dotfiles contains something like:

[alias]
    info = !"cd -- ${GIT_PREFIX:-.} && (git rev-parse 2>/dev/null && ( \
        echo '==stat' && git status -sb ; \
        [ \"$(git rev-parse HEAD 2> /dev/null)\" != 'HEAD' ] && echo '==branches' && git branchl ; \
        [ \"$(git remote -v)\" != '' ] && echo '==remotes' && git branch -r --color && git remote -v ; \
        [ \"$(git rev-parse HEAD 2> /dev/null)\" != 'HEAD' ] && echo '==commits' && git --no-pager log --date=format:'%y%m%d-%H%M' --pretty=format:'%C(green)%cd: %C(reset)%s %C(bold brightblue)<%an>%C(bold green)% D%C(brightyellow)% h%C(reset)' -5 --color && echo '' ; \
        [ \"$(git stash list)\" != '' ] && echo '==stashes' && git sl --color && echo '' ; \
        [ \"$(git tag -l)\" != '' ] && echo '==tags' && (git for-each-ref --color --count 5 --sort -creatordate --format='%(color:bold green)%(refname:short)%(color:no-bold brightyellow) %(if)%(*objectname)%(then)%(*objectname:short)%(else)%(objectname:short)%(end)%(color:reset) %(creatordate:short)' refs/tags) ; \
        [ \"$(git submodule status)\" != '' ] && echo '==submodules' && git submodule status \
        ) | less -FRX) || (echo 'not a git repository' >&2 && exit 1)"
    i = info

This shows the short status and then several other sections only if they have any information. The other sections are: branches, remotes, commits, stashes, tags, and submodules. The output might look something like:

`git info` command shows basic info about git repo

This provides most of the basic info about the current state of the repo that I often need at a glance.

I spent some time getting things formatted as I wanted, with the balance of conciseness and verbosity to my liking. I will likely tweak it further as I use it more.

[update]fix to remove BASHisms to work on POSIX sh, like for Ubuntu[/update]
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