# alias g to git in .gitconfig? 6 messages from 2008-10-03 to 2008-10-03. Participants: Rob Sanheim, Shawn O. Pearce, Thomas Rast, SZEDER Gábor. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15763 ## Rob Sanheim, 2008-10-03 02:51 Subject: alias g to git in .gitconfig? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fc113d400810021951hf95ff35qb1ccb4af45a71abe%40mail.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 ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2008-10-03 03:10 Subject: Re: alias g to git in .gitconfig? Message-ID: <20081003031014.GA24367@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081003031014.GA24367%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: ``` Rob Sanheim wrote: > 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'. No, you'll need to alias 'g' to git in bash, and then if you still want completion you'll need to also register the compgen to call _git completion routine. Its two lines: alias g=git complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g -- Shawn. ``` ## Rob Sanheim, 2008-10-03 15:25 Subject: Re: alias g to git in .gitconfig? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fc113d400810030825l75f9451dwc4cbf68807be0b5b%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20081003031014.GA24367@spearce.org> ``` Thanks, that did it. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Rob Sanheim wrote: >> 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'. > > No, you'll need to alias 'g' to git in bash, and then if you still > want completion you'll need to also register the compgen to call > _git completion routine. Its two lines: > > alias g=git > complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g > > -- > Shawn. > ``` ## Thomas Rast, 2008-10-03 16:35 Subject: [FYI PATCH] bash completion: alias 'g' to 'git' with completion Message-ID: <1223051705-30347-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1223051705-30347-1-git-send-email-trast%40student.ethz.ch In-Reply-To: ``` --- Rob Sanheim wrote: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > No, you'll need to alias 'g' to git in bash, and then if you still > > want completion you'll need to also register the compgen to call > > _git completion routine. Its two lines: > > > > alias g=git > > complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g > > Thanks, that did it. Actually it's not enough, you need to teach fetch, pull and push to recognise the new alias too, as in this patch. I do wonder if there's a better approach to those functions however, so that the "obvious" fix suggested by Shawn would work. - Thomas contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index 7284c3b..547e735 100755 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ _git_fetch () git-fetch*,1) __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" ;; - git,2) + git,2|g,2) __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" ;; *) @@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ _git_pull () git-pull*,1) __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" ;; - git,2) + git,2|g,2) __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" ;; *) @@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ _git_push () git-push*,1) __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" ;; - git,2) + git,2|g,2) __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" ;; *) @@ -1717,6 +1717,7 @@ _gitk () } complete -o default -o nospace -F _git git +complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g complete -o default -o nospace -F _gitk gitk # The following are necessary only for Cygwin, and only are needed -- 1.6.0.2.771.g3967 ``` ## SZEDER Gábor, 2008-10-03 19:34 Subject: [PATCH] bash: remove fetch, push, pull dashed form leftovers Message-ID: <20081003193449.GA24821@neumann> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081003193449.GA24821%40neumann In-Reply-To: <1223051705-30347-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch> ``` We don't provide complation for git-commands in dashed form anymore, so there is no need to keep those cases. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor --- On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 06:35:05PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote: > Actually it's not enough, you need to teach fetch, pull and push to > recognise the new alias too, as in this patch. I do wonder if there's > a better approach to those functions however, so that the "obvious" > fix suggested by Shawn would work. Maybe something like this? contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 36 ++++++++------------------------ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index 95c81f9..5a4e8c8 100755 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -784,14 +784,9 @@ _git_fetch () { local cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}" - case "${COMP_WORDS[0]},$COMP_CWORD" in - git-fetch*,1) + if [ "$COMP_CWORD" = 2 ]; then __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" - ;; - git,2) - __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" - ;; - *) + else case "$cur" in *:*) local pfx="" @@ -810,8 +805,7 @@ _git_fetch () __gitcomp "$(__git_refs2 "$remote")" ;; esac - ;; - esac + fi } _git_format_patch () @@ -1051,36 +1045,25 @@ _git_pull () { local cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}" - case "${COMP_WORDS[0]},$COMP_CWORD" in - git-pull*,1) - __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" - ;; - git,2) + if [ "$COMP_CWORD" = 2 ]; then __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" - ;; - *) + else local remote case "${COMP_WORDS[0]}" in git-pull) remote="${COMP_WORDS[1]}" ;; git) remote="${COMP_WORDS[2]}" ;; esac __gitcomp "$(__git_refs "$remote")" - ;; - esac + fi } _git_push () { local cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}" - case "${COMP_WORDS[0]},$COMP_CWORD" in - git-push*,1) - __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" - ;; - git,2) + if [ "$COMP_CWORD" = 2 ]; then __gitcomp "$(__git_remotes)" - ;; - *) + else case "$cur" in *:*) local remote @@ -1104,8 +1087,7 @@ _git_push () __gitcomp "$(__git_refs)" ;; esac - ;; - esac + fi } _git_rebase () -- 1.6.0.2.474.ga74ad.dirty ``` ## Thomas Rast, 2008-10-03 20:13 Subject: Re: [PATCH] bash: remove fetch, push, pull dashed form leftovers Message-ID: <200810032213.06005.trast@student.ethz.ch> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200810032213.06005.trast%40student.ethz.ch In-Reply-To: <20081003193449.GA24821@neumann> ``` SZEDER Gábor wrote: > We don't provide complation for git-commands in dashed form anymore, > so there is no need to keep those cases. [...] > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 06:35:05PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote: > > I do wonder if there's a better approach to those functions > > however, so that the "obvious" fix suggested by Shawn would work. > > Maybe something like this? That's indeed much simpler and better. FWIW, Tested-by: Thomas Rast -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch ```