How to List All Git Aliases

How can we list all available Git aliases on our system?

All of our aliases are stored in ~/.gitconfig, so the question becomes: what is the simplest or fastest way to pull the aliases from this file?

View `~/.gitconfig`

Our first option is to simply view this file in a text editor, vim, or just output the file contents to the terminal.

cat ~/.gitconfig

Our aliases will reside under the [alias] section.

We can also dump all of our Git configurations into the terminal using git config, and then use our eyes to find the aliases.

git config --global --list

The aliases will look something like this.

alias.alias_name=the_command_we_do_not_want_to_write_out

We can also view our Git aliases by only returning lines that match the format of a Git alias.

git config --get-regexp '^alias\.'

The regular expression ^alias\. matches all lines that start with the word alias and contain a single period . afterward.

Finally, we can create another alias to list our aliases.

Let’s steal the command from earlier, and place it in an alias called aliases.

git config --global alias.aliases "config --get-regexp '^alias\.'"

We can then use this alias to find all of our other aliases.

git aliases