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alias g to git in .gitconfig?

From
Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 3, 2008, 02:51 UTC
Message-ID
<fc113d400810021951hf95ff35qb1ccb4af45a71abe@mail.gmail.com>
This is pretty trivial, but I'm a lazy typist.

Is it possible to alias 'g' to git via git config, instead of via bash? If I do a plain bash alias then none of the nice autocompletion from git-contrib work with 'g'.

- Rob
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