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At work, my flow for fixing something is creating a branch git checkout -b {GITUSERNAME}/ticket-{TICKET-NUMBER} so like git checkout -b oscar/ticket-1234. I was wondering if there was a way I could make it so I could do git nt 1234 to create a "new ticket branch" of 1234 and then git cot 1234 to "checkout ticket 1234".

Oscar Godson
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  • Are you working in a specific shell, and tried making a native alias? Have you tried a bash/python/perl/`$yourLangOfChoice` script? Have you tried *something*? – admdrew Nov 14 '13 at 20:13
  • Yeah, I can make a bash script that's invoked in git with `!`, but was looking at how to do this with gitalias. I read the docs and, honestly, I don't really understand it fully. Sorry :\ – Oscar Godson Nov 14 '13 at 20:30
  • I've never used git aliases, but I personally would just try [some examples](https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Aliases) and figure it out from there. – admdrew Nov 14 '13 at 20:33

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This will do it. Add --global after config to make it global:

git config alias.nt '!f() { git checkout -b $(git config user.name)/ticket-${1}; }; f'
git config alias.cot '!f() { git checkout $(git config user.name)/ticket-${1}; }; f'

Note that this will only work if your user.name is one word!

Ash Wilson
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