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Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?

From
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
May 28, 2015, 00:28 UTC
Message-ID
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Hi,
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, and
then I look around what
exactly I want to do and usually I find it in the help text of a
previous command such as
    You are currently reverting commit 383c14b.
      (fix conflicts and run "git revert --continue")
      (use "git revert --abort" to cancel the revert operation)
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'.
    Did you mean this?
    init

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".

Thanks, Stefan

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  1. Stefan BellerMay 28, 2015
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2015
  3. Jeff KingMay 28, 2015
  4. Christian NeukirchenMay 29, 2015
  5. Aaron SchrabMay 29, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2015
  7. Stefan BellerMay 29, 2015
  8. Christian NeukirchenMay 29, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2015
  10. Konstantin KhomoutovMay 28, 2015
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