Re: [PATCH 5/5] config: add default aliases

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2021, 10:54 UTC
Message-ID: <60def07e686c7_7442083a@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <65b1d215-c3ab-e0e3-f4ac-a30131541f9b@mfriebe.de>

martin wrote:

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> On 02/07/2021 12:17, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> On Jul 02 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >>> +ALIAS
> >>> +~~~~~
> >>> +'git co'
> >> That's `checkout' in hg, bzr, svn and cvs.
> > I know, and commit is ci in many of them.
> >
> > The reason why I decided to make checkout co, is that we have already an
> > alternative for checkout: switch. So unlike all those other VCS, in git
> > we can have:
> >
> >    co = commit
> >    sw = switch
> >
> 
> If I may jump into the discussion.
> 
> IMHO it would be good to (partly) follow other vcs, and have
> commit = ci

I'm fine with leaving co out of the default aliases if it's deemed "too controversial".

But ci doesn't make sense. ci comes from "check in" which has no similitude in git.

I don't think it's a good idea to leave "git checkout" without an alias (it's perhaps the second or third most used command), but at least some aliases are better than no aliases.

> 3) if co is not a default, then people can set it according to their own 
> taste, with less confusion, than if they override a default.

People already have aliases. Whatever is the default doesn't matter. If you don't like the default you can set a co alias to whatever you want.

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Felipe Contreras