Re: default aliases (ci, di, st, co)

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:00:30AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

 Ondrej Certik wrote:

quoted

Hi,
coming to git from mercurial and svn, here is the alias part of my 
.gitconfig:
[alias]
    ci = commit
    di = diff --color-words
    st = status
    co = checkout
And all is fine until I share commands to checkout my branch (for
example) with other people, then basically I have to write those
commands in full (e.g. commit, checkout, ...), since I cannot assume
they have their .gitconfig setup the same way I do. Especially for
people who are new to git.
What is the view on this in the git community?

 Personally I think "plain" aliases like you use above are evil.
 git is not svn or mercurial. If you use it like svn you'll be
 surprised sooner or later and your workflow will feel awkward or
 just plain wrong. hg and git are very similar, but the fact that
 hg assumed the svn shorthands implies to me that they've tried
 to retain a compatibility that does not, in fact, exist.

No, it just means that shorting common commands is useful and common.

 I have no simple aliases for any of the commands. There's just no reason
 for them since tab completion works so well.

"Intelligent" bash completion always gets in my way, so I can't use it.

I vote yes.

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