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

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>]

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On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:00:30AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>  Ondrej Certik wrote:
> > 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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Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>

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