From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:46:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Announce: git-number
Message-ID: <AANLkTi==8_hssWSHkR0DTynibtT83iUEq-M_nPO5gN1m@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinJTy5OkcU+L=nFVwGMNBepuYgAr-+Jk=OVmG6P@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to announce a little tool that I have been using for the past
> few years whenever I use git: git-number.
>
> git-number allows you to use numbers in place of filenames whenever
> you need to provide them to any git command.
>
> When run without argument it will run git-status and prepend a number
> for each file name that git-status shows, starting from 1:
>
>        $ git number
>        # On branch master
>        # Untracked files:
>        #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>        #
>        #1      foo/bar/baz/frobnit.fu
>        nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
>
> The output is exactly the same as git status (with color), but with
> numbers associated with each file that is shown.
>
> Now, instead of writing:
>
>        $ git add foo/bar/baz/frobnit.fu
>
> You can just do
>
>        $ git number add 1
>

Nice. I have something similar in a private tool (same problem: too
long paths to type). This can be made applicable to a few other
commands too, like 'diff --stat'. I think the magic character [1], be
it ':' or '/', can be used to make this (the syntax is for
demostration only):

$ git add :@{1}

equivalent to your 'git number add 1'.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/169844
-- 
Duy