Using Git extras

Git is an important tool in the workflow of every developer. It is one of the most common source code managers used to track files and changes to files in a project. Git is free and open-source software that makes it available to every developer at no cost. Git can be downloaded here.

Git does a lot of tricks like branching and merging and for most cases that is more than enough to lighten your burden as a developer. As though that were not enough, git extras extend the functionality of git to exciting levels. Installing git extras adds a lot of extra commands to your git workflow. The list of commands can be found here. The github repository for git-extras is https://github.com/tj/git-extras.

Installing git-extras

git-extras is available for all the major Operating Systems. Installation instructions can be found on this page

On ubuntu the installation commands are as follows:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install git-extras

With just those commands git-extras will be installed on your system. Once git extras is installed you will have access to a number of cool commands such as:

git summary

git effort

git impact

git browse

git-info

Conclusion

Git extras is an awesome extension to git that significantly improves the git workflow. Git is the foundational technology behind github, gitlab and bitbucket