On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:39 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 08:31:17PM +0200, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > > > I just realized how often I type "git ci --amend". Looking back at my > > ~/.bash_history (only 10k lines) this is the second most often git > > command I type which may justify a short option for it (assuming that > > other people use this option often too, of course). > > > > The short option space for 'git commit' is really crowded with > > acCeFhimnopqsStuvz already taken. So it could be '-M' or '-A' but I'd > > prefer not to hold shift, so I chose '-j' even though it's not > > strictly related to "amend" (or perhaps we can thinking of amending as > > joining commits). > > > > Thoughts? > > I also used to type it a lot. So I did: > > $ type a > a is aliased to `git commit --amend' > > I don't know if that argues for or against a short option. It's a "for" for me because I won't have my aliases on other people's machines. -- Duy