My favorite should be hooks. They're not exactly a shortcut, but they allow you to write logic to prevent yourself from doing dumb things.
Namely, I have two I need to write. One preventing master pushing, as sometimes I forget which branch I'm on if I'm all over the place. And two, preventing committing past a `wip` commit message. Arguably I shouldn't be using wip commit messages, but I prefer being able to have a "stash" per branch, of sorts. If I stashed it, I fear namespace clobbering as well as forgetting I even had a wip.
Namely, I have two I need to write. One preventing master pushing, as sometimes I forget which branch I'm on if I'm all over the place. And two, preventing committing past a `wip` commit message. Arguably I shouldn't be using wip commit messages, but I prefer being able to have a "stash" per branch, of sorts. If I stashed it, I fear namespace clobbering as well as forgetting I even had a wip.