Definitely handy – I’ve added them to my .gitconfig. (note the double-encoded ampersands should simply be & instead of &)

UPDATE: Here is a Gist with some of my favorite alises – including incoming and outgoing that will use the currently checked out branch against the matching origin branch (no longer hard coded to master):

https://gist.github.com/alexkingorg/6236020

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