Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?

From

KKKonstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>

Date

May 28, 2015, 10:36 UTC

Message-ID

<20150528133625.bfececc222a4820e9fb27aaa@domain007.com>

In-Reply-To

<CAGZ79kZHa9wUrRsWfHgGdSdx+cN9VAirAAfu3YLVTuSmggcehg@mail.gmail.com>

> so I just run into this problem again (which happens to me maybe
> twice a week): I want to do a git operations, so I type "git " into
> my shell,

[...]

> then I copy the whole operation "git revert --abort" in this case and
> paste it to the shell and let go.
> The result looks like
>     $ git git revert --abort
>     git: 'git' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

[...]

> I wonder if we want to make a "git" subcommand, which behaves exactly
> the same as git itself?
> Then "git git git status" would just return the same as "git status".

In your ~/.whateverrc, put this:

git() {
  while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
    test "$1" != "git" && break;
    shift;
  done;
  command git $@;
}