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You can add your own git commands

2025-06-15

Tags: git, shell

Here's something really cool. You can add your own commands to git by simply prepending a script with git- and adding it to your $PATH.

For example, create a script called git-root which outputs the root directory of a git worktree:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
git rev-parse --show-toplevel

Having saved it, added it to a directory in our path, and marked it as executable, we will be able to execute it just like any other git command:

git root

And that should execute the script, showing the output.

Please share any handy scripts you've added as git commands in the comments!