From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:53:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] build: add default aliases
Message-ID: <20130924045325.GD2766@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1379791221-29925-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 02:20:21PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> For now simply add a few common aliases.
> 
>   co = checkout
>   ci = commit
>   rb = rebase
>   st = status

Are these the best definitions of those shortcuts? It seems[1] that some
people define "ci" as "commit -a", and some people define "st" as
"status -s" or even "status -sb".

You are making things more consistent for people who already define
those aliases in the same way (they are available everywhere, even if
they have not moved their config to a new installation), but less so for
people who define them differently. Rather than get an obvious:

  git: 'co' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

the result will be subtly different (especially so in the case of
"commit" versus "commit -a").

-Peff

[1] https://github.com/search?q=%22ci+%3D+commit+-a%22+path%3A.gitconfig&type=Code

    https://github.com/search?q=%22st+%3D+status+-s%22&type=Code

    https://github.com/search?q=%22st+%3D+status+-sb%22&type=Code