How can I delete a git alias?

Question

I'm learning to work with git, and I tried to set some aliases like this:

git config --global alias.trololo 'status'

So now when I type git trololo it works like git status.

Now trololo alias is not needed. How can I correctly delete it?

Solution 1

You can try --unset in git config:

git config --global --unset alias.trololo

I find it safer than editing directly the config file (git config --global --edit)

Solution 2

In case someone has multiple values for the same alias and has got that:

$ git config --global --unset alias.trololo
warning: alias.trololo has multiple values

Use --unset-all

git config --global --unset-all

Solution 3

Or just:

vim ~/.gitconfig

And delete the alias lines.

Solution 4

You can remove it by deleting that line from the configuration file or you can try this:

git config --global --unset alias.YourAlias

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Comments

[joel]

is this fragile to implementation changes?

[atupal]

@JoelBerkeley Yes. And just provide another way. :-)

[De Novo]

In addition to being the correct way to do this, this solution has the benefit of working for local and system aliases, as well as global aliases, provided you use the appropriate flag (--local, etc).