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Re: Proposal: "unadd" command / alias.

From
Filipp Bakanov <filipp@bakanov.su>
Date
Oct 27, 2020, 23:14 UTC
Message-ID
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It's the matter of UX. If many users have to make an alias for the same unclear command, at least it's a point to think about making this particular command more convenient. As far as I remember, some aliases were already added to git by default. What's bad with adding a popular (among many users) aliases, if they improve UX and make life easier?

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 01:54, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 01:02:11AM +0300, Filipp Bakanov wrote:
> > >> Indeed, I have a similar alias in my ~/.gitconfig
> >
> > Why not just add it to git by default for everybody? revert-file is
> > also ok, anything except `checkout HEAD --` will be good.
>
> Because everyone may have their own favorite aliases?  Just because
> *I* have the following aliases doesn't mean that everyone else would
> find them useful.
>
> [alias]
>         new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD
>         dw = diff --stat --summary
>         di = diff --stat --summary --cached
>         dc = describe --contains
>         revert-file = checkout HEAD --
>         l  = log --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>         lr = log --reverse --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>         rl  = log -g --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %gd %gs %Cgreen(%gr)%Creset %s' --abbrev-commit
>         rl1  = log -g --date=relative --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %gs %Cgreen%gd%Creset %s' --abbrev-commit
>         lg  = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>         lgt = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>         rlt = log -g --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>         lgt-nc = log --graph --pretty=format:'%h -%d %s (%cr)' --abbrev-commit
>         st = status -s
>         recent = for-each-ref --count=15 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short)'
>         gerrit-clone = !bash ggh gerrit-clone
>         start = !bash ggh start
>         upload = !bash ggh upload
>         prune-branches = !bash ggh prune-branches
>         fixes = log -1 --pretty=fixes
>
> I have a huge number of bash aliases, and that doesn't mean everyone
> else should have those bash aliases.  For that matter, I have the
> following in ~/bin/git-rp-ext4 so that I can type "git rp-ext4
> tags/ext4_for_linus".  But that doesn't mean this script is right for
> everyone....
>
> Cheers,
>
>                                         - Ted
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> START=origin
> URL=git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
> END=""
>
> print_help ()
> {
>     PROG=$(basename "$0")
>     echo "Usage: $PROG [-n] [--start <START COMMIT>] [--url <URL] [<END COMMIT>]"
>     exit 1
> }
>
> while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
>     case $1 in
>         --start) shift
>                  START="$1"
>                  ;;
>         --url) shift
>                URL="$1"
>                ;;
>         -n) NO_ACTION="echo" ;;
>         -*) print_help ;;
>         *)
>             if test -n "$END"
>             then
>                 print_help
>             else
>                 END="$1"
>             fi
>             ;;
>     esac
>     shift
> done
>
> $NO_ACTION git request-pull "$START" "$URL" "$END"
>
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  1. Filipp BakanovOct 27, 2020
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2020
  3. Theodore Y. Ts'oOct 27, 2020
  4. Filipp BakanovOct 27, 2020
  5. Theodore Y. Ts'oOct 27, 2020
  6. Filipp BakanovOct 27, 2020
  7. Philip OakleyOct 28, 2020
  8. Pratyush YadavOct 28, 2020
  9. Filipp BakanovOct 28, 2020
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2020
  11. Konstantin TokarevOct 28, 2020
  12. Filipp BakanovOct 28, 2020

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