My Favorite Developer BASH aliases

I was recently reformatting my laptop for the nth time in the past year and I have been carrying around some bash aliases i've used for years. They need to be on my machine because otherwise my muscle memory will not work :)

A bit ago I decided to put it in a public git repo to share and for easy reference for myself. It is available here:

https://github.com/dreamcodez/shell-shortcuts/blob/master/.shortcuts

Here is a quick explanation of my favorite aliases:

• alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'
  alias pbpaste='xclip -selection clipboard -o'

  If you've missed the 'pbcopy' and 'pbpaste' commands on MacOS X while developing on Linux -- look no further. I have tested these commands extensively so it should also work for you ;)

• alias gs='git status'

  Typically a developer has to type the git status command very often -- shortened to gs.

• alias gcp='git checkout -p'
  alias gap='git add -p'

  Progressive add and remove commands for the git cache -- these commands are basically the opposite of each other and remind me of the best parts of what Darcs was trying to do. gcp will allow you to incrementally and selectively remove new lines of code modification whereas gap will allow you to incrementally and selectively add new lines of code modification. This allows you to partially check in files and omit parts which you don't want such as a useful console.log which might only be on your dev environment.

  The other benefit here is that you get to review the code -- one small diff at a time and follow your changes a bit easier. I will typically use this time to also jot down any notes which should go in the commit message as the changes I made are refreshed in my mind.