Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Aug 28, 2008, 05:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20080828054352.GB6791@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <48B5BB35.8090606@pobox.com>

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:38:13PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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> Jeff King wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:24:19PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>>> Indeed.
>>>
>>> Also, I type "git-diff-tree" quite a lot.
>>>
>>> My fingers find that
>>>
>>> 	git SPACE diff DASH tree
>>>
>>> is slower and less consistent than
>>>
>>> 	git DASH diff DASH tree
>>>
>>> The same with git-format-patch...  We are going from "all dashes" to 
>>> "a  mix of space and dashes" which is increasing inconsistency.
>>
>> I have also found the SPACE-DASH slightly harder to type. However, I'm
>> curious: what are you doing frequently from the commandline with
>> git-diff-tree that is not just as easily done with git-diff?
>
> I use it to spit out a patch for a specific commit:
>
> 	git-diff-tree -p $COMMIT
>
> Though probably someone will now come along and tell me I'm am  
> old-timer, and there is a shorter command that accomplishes the same  
> thing :)

Other than why you use git diff-tree so much, why don't you set 2
letters aliases for your most commonly used commands ?
[alias]
        st = status
        co = checkout
        fp = format-patch
        dt = diff-tree
etc.

Mike