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document updated 2 years ago, on May 15, 2022

If you place an executable named git-MYCOMMAND anywhere in your $PATH, then running `git MYCOMMAND` will call that script, just as if it were an official command underneath git. It can be anything from a shell script to a compiled C executable, it's totally up to you.

This is a good explanation of the details of this:

Git aliases are nice, but they're nowhere near as powerful and flexible as custom git commands can be.

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Git commands useful for creating your own scripts

It seems like git has an endless number of commands. Most of them are user-oriented, but there are a few that are particularly useful for ingestion into your custom scripts:

There are some Perl modules for accessing some of the Git plumbing:

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Other people's custom git commands

While we're here, this is a list of custom commands that other people have published, that I particularly like: