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Re: alias g to git in .gitconfig?

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Oct 3, 2008, 03:10 UTC
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<20081003031014.GA24367@spearce.org>
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Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is pretty trivial, but I'm a lazy typist.
> 
> Is it possible to alias 'g' to git via git config, instead of via
> bash?  If I do a plain bash alias then none of the nice autocompletion
> from git-contrib work with 'g'.

No, you'll need to alias 'g' to git in bash, and then if you still want completion you'll need to also register the compgen to call _git completion routine. Its two lines:

	alias g=git
	complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g
-- 
Shawn.
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  1. Rob SanheimOct 3, 2008
  2. Shawn O. PearceOct 3, 2008
  3. Rob SanheimOct 3, 2008
  4. bash completion: alias 'g' to 'git' with completionThomas Rast, Oct 3, 2008
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