On 27/10/2020 23:14, Filipp Bakanov wrote:
> It's the matter of UX. If many users have to make an alias for the
> same unclear command, at least it's a point to think about making this
> particular command more convenient. As far as I remember, some aliases
> were already added to git by default.
> What's bad with adding a popular (among many users) aliases, if they
> improve UX and make life easier?
One option maybe to curate a few of the more popular aliases within a
contrib/aliases file/directory.
Not sure how best to add comments into the alias file so folks can
remember what they are really meant to do, or where they copied them from.
Philip
>
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 01:54, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 01:02:11AM +0300, Filipp Bakanov wrote:
>>>>> Indeed, I have a similar alias in my ~/.gitconfig
>>> Why not just add it to git by default for everybody? revert-file is
>>> also ok, anything except `checkout HEAD --` will be good.
>> Because everyone may have their own favorite aliases? Just because
>> *I* have the following aliases doesn't mean that everyone else would
>> find them useful.
>>
>> [alias]
>> new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD
>> dw = diff --stat --summary
>> di = diff --stat --summary --cached
>> dc = describe --contains
>> revert-file = checkout HEAD --
>> l = log --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>> lr = log --reverse --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>> rl = log -g --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %gd %gs %Cgreen(%gr)%Creset %s' --abbrev-commit
>> rl1 = log -g --date=relative --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %gs %Cgreen%gd%Creset %s' --abbrev-commit
>> lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>> lgt = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>> rlt = log -g --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>> lgt-nc = log --graph --pretty=format:'%h -%d %s (%cr)' --abbrev-commit
>> st = status -s
>> recent = for-each-ref --count=15 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short)'
>> gerrit-clone = !bash ggh gerrit-clone
>> start = !bash ggh start
>> upload = !bash ggh upload
>> prune-branches = !bash ggh prune-branches
>> fixes = log -1 --pretty=fixes
>>
>> I have a huge number of bash aliases, and that doesn't mean everyone
>> else should have those bash aliases. For that matter, I have the
>> following in ~/bin/git-rp-ext4 so that I can type "git rp-ext4
>> tags/ext4_for_linus". But that doesn't mean this script is right for
>> everyone....
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ted
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> START=origin
>> URL=git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
>> END=""
>>
>> print_help ()
>> {
>> PROG=$(basename "$0")
>> echo "Usage: $PROG [-n] [--start <START COMMIT>] [--url <URL] [<END COMMIT>]"
>> exit 1
>> }
>>
>> while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
>> case $1 in
>> --start) shift
>> START="$1"
>> ;;
>> --url) shift
>> URL="$1"
>> ;;
>> -n) NO_ACTION="echo" ;;
>> -*) print_help ;;
>> *)
>> if test -n "$END"
>> then
>> print_help
>> else
>> END="$1"
>> fi
>> ;;
>> esac
>> shift
>> done
>>
>> $NO_ACTION git request-pull "$START" "$URL" "$END"
>>
