GIT-EXTRAS(1)

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💖 GIT-EXTRAS(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the git-extras manual page — aka Awesome GIT utilities. yeah that's the actual tagline and honestly? it ate. this is the top-level page for the whole git-extras situation, the mothership that holds all the lil extra commands. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

git-extras — Awesome GIT utilities 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

git-extras [-v,--version] [-h,--help] [update]

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -v, --version — shows you the git-extras version number, so you can be like "which one am I on" 💁‍♀️
  • -h, --help — shows this help. and not just here bestie — this option also works on any of the extras commands, so if you ever get lost just hit it with an -h 🫶
  • update — self update. the tool updating itself. main character behavior fr fr 🔥

🎀 ENVIRONMENT AND CONFIGURATION VARIABLES 🎀

git config --add git-extras.default-branch $BRANCH

sets your default branch to $BRANCH. here's the ✨ hierarchy ✨ so you know what wins:

  • if git-extras.default-branch isn't set, init.defaultBranch gets used instead
  • if neither of them is set, it defaults to main

no cap, that's the whole fallback chain. 🌈

👑 COMMANDS 👑

every single one of these has its own manpage, so if you wanna go deeper, the door is open. go off 💜

  • git-abort(1) — Abort current git operation
  • git-alias(1) — Define, search and show aliases
  • git-archive-file(1) — Export the current HEAD of the git repository to an archive
  • git-authors(1) — Generate authors report
  • git-browse-ci(1) — View the web page for the current repository
  • git-browse(1) — View the web page for the current repository
  • git-brv(1) — List branches sorted by their last commit date
  • git-bulk(1) — Run git commands on multiple repositories
  • git-changelog(1) — Generate a changelog report
  • git-clear-soft(1) — Soft clean up a repository
  • git-clear(1) — Rigorously clean up a repository
  • git-coauthor(1) — Add a co-author to the last commit
  • git-commits-since(1) — Show commit logs since some date
  • git-continue(1) — Continue current git operation
  • git-contrib(1) — Show user's contributions
  • git-count(1) — Show commit count
  • git-cp(1) — Copy a file keeping its history
  • git-create-branch(1) — Create branches
  • git-delete-branch(1) — Delete branches
  • git-delete-merged-branches(1) — Delete merged branches
  • git-delete-squashed-branches(1) — Delete branches that were squashed
  • git-delete-submodule(1) — Delete submodules
  • git-delete-tag(1) — Delete tags
  • git-delta(1) — Lists changed files
  • git-effort(1) — Show effort statistics on file(s)
  • git-feature(1) — Create/Merge feature branch
  • git-force-clone(1) — overwrite local repositories with clone
  • git-fork(1) — Fork a repo on github
  • git-fresh-branch(1) — Create fresh branches
  • git-get(1) — Clone a Git repository under a configured directory
  • git-gh-pages(1) — Create the GitHub Pages branch
  • git-graft(1) — Merge and destroy a given branch
  • git-guilt(1) — calculate change between two revisions
  • git-ignore-io(1) — Get sample gitignore file
  • git-ignore(1) — Add .gitignore patterns
  • git-info(1) — Returns information on current repository
  • git-local-commits(1) — List local commits
  • git-lock(1) — Lock a file excluded from version control
  • git-locked(1) — ls files that have been locked
  • git-magic(1) — Automate add/commit/push routines
  • git-merge-into(1) — Merge one branch into another
  • git-merge-repo(1) — Merge two repo histories
  • git-missing(1) — Show commits missing from another branch
  • git-mr(1) — Checks out a merge request locally
  • git-obliterate(1) — rewrite past commits to remove some files
  • git-paste(1) — Send patches to pastebin for chat conversations
  • git-pr(1) — Checks out a pull request locally
  • git-psykorebase(1) — Rebase a branch with a merge commit
  • git-pull-request(1) — Create pull request for GitHub project
  • git-reauthor(1) — Rewrite history to change author's identity
  • git-rebase-patch(1) — Rebases a patch
  • git-release(1) — Commit, tag and push changes to the repository
  • git-rename-branch(1) — rename local branch and push to remote
  • git-rename-file(1) — Rename a file or directory and ensure Git recognizes the change, regardless of filesystem case-sensitivity.
  • git-rename-remote(1) — Rename a remote
  • git-rename-tag(1) — Rename a tag
  • git-repl(1) — git read-eval-print-loop
  • git-reset-file(1) — Reset one file
  • git-root(1) — show path of root
  • git-scp(1) — Copy files to SSH compatible git-remote
  • git-sed(1) — replace patterns in git-controlled files
  • git-setup(1) — Set up a git repository
  • git-show-merged-branches(1) — Show merged branches
  • git-show-tree(1) — show branch tree of commit history
  • git-show-unmerged-branches(1) — Show unmerged branches
  • git-squash(1) — squash N last changes up to a ref'ed commit
  • git-stamp(1) — Stamp the last commit message
  • git-standup(1) — Recall the commit history
  • git-summary(1) — Show repository summary
  • git-sync(1) — Sync local branch with remote branch
  • git-touch(1) — Touch and add file to the index
  • git-undo(1) — Remove latest commits
  • git-unlock(1) — Unlock a file excluded from version control
  • git-unwip(1) — Undo a Work In Progress commit
  • git-utimes(1) — Change files modification time to their last commit date
  • git-wip(1) — Create a Work In Progress commit

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Written by Tj Holowaychuk <tj@vision-media.ca> — ty for the utilities king 💖

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? it's giving "tell the internet", so:

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues>

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras>

and that's the whole page bestie, you made it to the end 🎉 this version is from May 2026, shipped as part of Git Extras (page GIT-EXTRAS(1), if you're keeping receipts). go forth and commit, you're the main character of your own repo 💅✨🌸

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