The git Script I Use Everyday, All the Time

One of my most used Git script is gs. It’s an overloaded function that does the following:

Runs git status to look at working tree status:

gs

Runs git status <file name/path> to only look at a file:

gs <file name/path>

Runs git show <commit> to display a commit:

gs <commit>

I wrote it as a fish shell function, but it should be easy to convert to a shell script ¹:

function gs
    if not string length -q -- "$argv"
        git status -s
    else
        if test -e "$argv"
            git status -s $argv
        else
            #`--ext-diff` so external diff tool specified in `git config --get diff.external` is used (it's only automatically applied only for `git diff`)
            git show --ext-diff $argv
        end
    end
end

complete -c gs  -a '(complete -C "git show ")'

1. Except maybe for autocompletion. That’s why I use fish shell ↩