Re: [git-users] Highlevel (but simple to implement) commands provided by default for git

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 29, 2013, 19:39 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s0Cx-FCZLOFZxcpC86sY+H03HKBi0nKFMgit=B5XCy71g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJri6_tm=tk6L1DT=A_BB25jm7b+2Uniw1uSCGtrY5_8X=t_hw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Bráulio Bhavamitra <brauliobo@gmail.com> wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bráulio Bhavamitra <brauliobo@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:23 AM
> Subject: [git-users] Highlevel (but simple to implement) commands
> provided by default for git
> To: git-users@googlegroups.com

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> One of the things I note about git is that is provides mostly
> low-level and strictly necessary commands.
> Many highlevel commands are then implemented as alias by users, after
> a deep search on the internet.
>
> Adding highlevel commands, even though it could be implemented by a
> simple alias, would put git in another level
> of user experience and create a new standard for newbie users.
> What git developers think about this?

Completely agree.

>   root = rev-parse --show-toplevel
>
>  upstream = !git for-each-ref --format='%(upstream:short)' $(git
> symbolic-ref -q HEAD)

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref @{u}

>  upstream-remote = !git upstream | sed -e 's/\\/.*$//g'

git config branch.$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD).remote

>  out = !git fetch `git upstream-remote` && git l `git upstream`..HEAD

'git fetch' without arguments is the same as git fetch `git upstream-remote`

Junio: See? It's not the expected behavior for most of our user-base.

'git log @{u}..HEAD' does the same as 'git log `git upstream`..HEAD'

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>  unmerged = !git ls-files --unmerged | cut -f2 | uniq
>  untracked = ls-files --other --exclude-standard
>  staged = ls-files --staged
>  modified = ls-files --modified
>  deleted = ls-files --deleted

I think we should have a user-friendly 'git ls' command.

>   head = !git l -1

Or 'git show --quiet'.

>  current = rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

We should probably also add typical shortucts:

d = diff l = log f = fetch p = push r = reset ci = commit rb = rebase co = checkout st = status pi = cherry-pick mt = mergetool

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Felipe Contreras