From the course: Git: Branches, Merges, and Remotes
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- Thank you for taking Git: Branches, Merges, and Remotes with me. We've covered some powerful techniques for managing your source code. You'll have more confidence to make big changes knowing that your old versions are only a few keystrokes away. You'll feel empowered to try new ideas and code branches without worrying that you might break the main project, or you'll be able to collaborate more effectively with other Git users, whether it's on your own project, a company or client project, or an open source project. Before I leave you, I want to suggest some next steps you may want to explore. The first is that Git allows you to create aliases for commonly-used commands. If you have to type fewer keystrokes to execute a command, it can speed up your work flow. You can add aliases using a command like this. Git config and then dash dash global alias dot and then the keystrokes you want to use as an alias and the in quotes what it should be an alias for. So this is adding an alias so…
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