Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?

On Wed, 27 May 2015 17:28:34 -0700
Stefan Beller [off-list ref] wrote:

so I just run into this problem again (which happens to me maybe
twice a week): I want to do a git operations, so I type "git " into
my shell,

[...]

then I copy the whole operation "git revert --abort" in this case and
paste it to the shell and let go.
The result looks like
    $ git git revert --abort
    git: 'git' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

[...]

I wonder if we want to make a "git" subcommand, which behaves exactly
the same as git itself?
Then "git git git status" would just return the same as "git status".

In your ~/.whateverrc, put this:

git() {
  while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
    test "$1" != "git" && break;
    shift;
  done;
  command git $@;
}

This assumes a POSIX-compatible shell but I think you've got the idea.
("command" is a builtin which forces interpreting the following word as
the name of an external program.)