On Thu, Dec 16 2021, Jasdeep Khalsa wrote: > Hi there Git Community! > > I've been using the following aliases for a long time: > > del or delete = branch -D > new or create = checkout -b > > And I feel these are good candidates as an addition into the core git > API as they provide an easy way for new starters to understand the > creating and deleting of branches - which is arguably one of the most > common git operations. As a general advice if we're providing any sort of sugar / default flags either as a guide or as aliases for newcomers it's probably good to not do so with --force, i.e. your -D will shred data users might still want, better to make it a -d. You can always add -D when needed. > In comparison, passing in flags for this purpose for new starters to > git, is both hard to remember and not easy or obvious to understand > what is going on. > > From my understanding, these flags were also meant as a shortcut to do > a git branch && git checkout in one operation - effectively being > alias flags anyway. > > So I wanted to reach out to find out what appetite there may be out > there to add/change these to be simpler for new starters to git :) > > Thanks for considering my proposal and happy to discuss any thoughts! > > Jasdeep > > https://github.com/jasdeepkhalsa There was a more extensive proposal discussed on-list recently here: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210702100506.1422429-6-felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx/ I think if you're interested reading that & using some of the things that came up there as a jumping-off point would be a good place to start.
