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

From: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2007, 02:21 UTC
Message-ID: <f17812d70711111821v2e14cf6bsd65a192114872056@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711111954520.29952@iabervon.org>

On Nov 12, 2007 9:02 AM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:

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> 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
>

Thanks, this is exactly what I want.

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> 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.
>

Ye, agree, I don't think that's a good idea either.

>         -Daniel
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Cheers
- eric