Re: Is it possible for git to remember the options preference for "git log"?

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Nov 12, 2007, 01:02 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711111954520.29952@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <f17812d70711111633u6c00d182u532fef1c16c3c94a@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, eric miao wrote:

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> All,
> 
> Most of the time I'm using git-log for inspecting a brief history
> and insert/remove/modify commits between, which I have to
> type "git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline" every time. Is
> it possible for git to remember this command line options
> preference?
> 
> And no, I don't really want to use shell's alias or something
> else, I was just used to type "git xxx" :-)

Git has a built-in alias mechanism, which is probably what you want. If you put in your config file:

[alias]
	xxx = log --abbrev-commit --pretty=online

then you can type "git xxx" and it'll do what you want. Changing the default behavior of the basic commands is looked down on because there are scripts that use them to get their input, and those scripts have particular formats they expect.

	-Daniel
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