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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: should git command and git-command be equivalent?
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:28:28 +1000
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On 16/10/2007, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> "franky" <yinping@kooxoo.com> writes:
>
> >> Also, you can use aliases (for example, I type "git st" to do "git
> >> status") with "git whatever", but not with "git-whatever" (unless you
> >> define the alias in your shell).
> > I try "git st", but it complains "git: 'st' is not a git-command".
>
> Sure, I'm talking about aliases, so what I meant is that I had
>
> [alias]
>         st = status
>
> in ~/.gitconfig.

If you use the contrib/completion/git-completion.bash script, you can
type "git st<TAB>", and it'll complete it for you. Well, it did, until
git-stash came along and ruined it...

At any rate, the bash completion also completes things like branch
names, which can be immensely helpful.


Dave.