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If you often find yourself pointing your team members to commit urls in GitHub, this might be fun for you.

I created git alias called 'hub' that automatically guesses the github repository url for the repository you are currently in:

$ git hub
https://github.com/felixge/my-project

Based on that I created a second alias called 'url', which gives you the url to HEAD commit:

$ git url
https://github.com/felixge/my-project/commit/0bdc57323a1ffec7ffe10bf83147cab5d6838d45

You can however also provide another sha1 you want to link to:

$ git url 22db8914220b717b0954b84365030ae3c9602a17
https://github.com/felixge/my-project/commit/22db8914220b717b0954b84365030ae3c9602a17

If you find those aliases useful, here are my ~/.gitconfig alias definitions for them:

[alias]
  hub =! echo "https://github.com/"`git config remote.origin.url` | sed -E s/[a-z]+@github\.com:// | sed s/\.git$//
  url =!sh -c 'HEAD=`git rev-parse HEAD` && SHA1=`[ "$0" = "sh" ] && echo $HEAD || echo $0` && echo `git hub`"/commit/"${SHA1i}'

(Bash gurus: I am sure you can do the above much more elegantly, wanna give it a try?)

Further I also have this little bash script in ~/bin/tiny:

#!/bin/bash
curl "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=$1"
echo ""

This allows me to make tiny urls for my links if I need to paste them on long-url unfriendly territory:

$ git url | xargs tiny
http://tinyurl.com/cva44t

Or if you are on OSX, you can use this to open the git url in your browser:

$ git url | xargs open

Now all of the above could probably be done much smarter, but as far as I am concerned it works great ; ).

-- Felix Geisendörfer aka the_undefined

PS: What command line tricks are part of your daily workflow?