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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: alias g to git in .gitconfig?
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:10:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081003031014.GA24367@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc113d400810021951hf95ff35qb1ccb4af45a71abe@mail.gmail.com>

Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is pretty trivial, but I'm a lazy typist.
> 
> Is it possible to alias 'g' to git via git config, instead of via
> bash?  If I do a plain bash alias then none of the nice autocompletion
> from git-contrib work with 'g'.

No, you'll need to alias 'g' to git in bash, and then if you still
want completion you'll need to also register the compgen to call
_git completion routine.  Its two lines:

	alias g=git
	complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-03  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-03  2:51 alias g to git in .gitconfig? Rob Sanheim
2008-10-03  3:10 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-10-03 15:25   ` Rob Sanheim
2008-10-03 16:35     ` [FYI PATCH] bash completion: alias 'g' to 'git' with completion Thomas Rast
2008-10-03 19:34       ` [PATCH] bash: remove fetch, push, pull dashed form leftovers SZEDER Gábor
2008-10-03 20:13         ` Thomas Rast

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