Ondrej Certik <ondrej@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
If you have admin rights on the machine, you can do that either using
system git config file (git config --system) i.e. $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
or rather $(sysconfdir)/gitconfig, or by providing 'config' template
(copied as default repository config on init) in some place like
/usr/share/git-core/templates/config .
>
> What is the view on this in the git community? Do most of you write
>
> git checkout -b branch ...
>
> (possibly with TAB completion) or do most of you write
>
> git co -b branch ...
>
> (like I do all the time, except when sharing my commands with other
> people)?
I use tab completion for commands like "git commit", "git show", "git
checkout" etc. (most important part is branch completion, not command
completion IMVHO).
But I do have few aliases:
[alias]
cat = cat-file -p
less = -p cat-file -p
alias = config --get-regexp ^alias\\.
lg = log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
one = show -s --pretty='format:%h (%s)'
llog = log --date=local
who = "!sh -c 'git log -1 --pretty=\"format:%an <%ae>\" --author=\"$1\"' -"
lb = for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' \
--sort=-authordate --count=8 refs/heads/
rllog = log -g --date=relative
rlg = reflog show @{now}
sed = !git ls-files --stage | grep ^100 | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sed
I use most often "git one" aliase (hmmm... I have just noticed that
"git lg" alias is now superfluous with new '--oneline' option).
> Could in principle those aliases be even made default by git? Or is
> this not a good idea.
The "default/built-in aliases" idea was discussed on git mailing list
a few times in the past...
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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