Re: default aliases (ci, di, st, co)

>  Ondrej Certik wrote:
> > Hi,
> > coming to git from mercurial and svn, here is the alias part of my 
> > .gitconfig:
> > [alias]
> >     ci = commit
> >     di = diff --color-words
> >     st = status
> >     co = checkout
> > And all is fine until I share commands to checkout my branch (for
> > example) with other people, then basically I have to write those
> > commands in full (e.g. commit, checkout, ...), since I cannot assume
> > they have their .gitconfig setup the same way I do. Especially for
> > people who are new to git.
> > What is the view on this in the git community?
> 
> 
>  Personally I think "plain" aliases like you use above are evil.
>  git is not svn or mercurial. If you use it like svn you'll be
>  surprised sooner or later and your workflow will feel awkward or
>  just plain wrong. hg and git are very similar, but the fact that
>  hg assumed the svn shorthands implies to me that they've tried
>  to retain a compatibility that does not, in fact, exist.