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GeoffWozniak 4 years ago | link

This is one of those articles that rescues itself by going to the absurd.
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svag 4 years ago | link

Another issue about typing git is that sometimes I type gti, so I have installed this beautiful application http://r-wos.org/hacks/gti
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  unrelentingtech 4 years ago | link
  
  I just type g, because alias g=git. Since it’s one of the most common commands, it deserves to be just one letter.
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    qznc 4 years ago | link
    
    I do that as well. Also, l=ls, m=make. Then there are shortcuts like gl for git log, gd for git diff, st for git status, gup for git pull --rebase, etc.
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      unrelentingtech 4 years ago | link
      
      Ohh… my git aliases are actually “vim-like”: https://github.com/myfreeweb/dotfiles/blob/master/dev-base/gitconfig
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    peter 4 years ago | link
    
    Seriously. Why bother with ls when you have git? Counting command frequency, my alias gs has over 20 times the usage of ls.
    
    alias gs='g status -sb'
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      unrelentingtech 4 years ago | link
      
      alias l="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 1" alias l2="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 2"
      
      etc.
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        peter 4 years ago | link
        
        That would blow up my terminal. I have a very… flat… organization strategy. Really even using ls in my home dir is useless without a glob. ?
        
        And my home dir is a git repo anyway.
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  dguaraglia 4 years ago | link
  
  ROFL, that’s hilarious. I wish there was an equivalent thing I could install so whenever I press “Esc” on my keyboard I get an annoying animation (I’m trying to teach myself to use Caps-Lock as an Esc key, seeing as I’ll probably be doomed to buy one of the new Macbook Pros with the stupid touchbar soon.)
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    Sietsebb 4 years ago | link
    
    Why bother with an animation? If you really want to stop hitting Escape, buy that Macbook :-P
    
    More seriously, and in case Escape is important because you use Vim: I have grown very fond of :inoremap jk <Esc>. Perhaps that’s of use to you, too?
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      don 4 years ago | link
      
      As someone who uses jk repeatedly to find where they are on screen when i get lost, that might just kill me. But ctrl+c will exit you from insert mode in vim. As will ctrl+[. Both of which have been really nice when using a touchbar mac.
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        Sietsebb 4 years ago | link
        
        In truth, jk doesn’t work for me, either, because I type a lot of Dutch. I use nj, instead. It rolls nicely off the fingertips. I have also heard people recommend jj.
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    coypoop 4 years ago | link
    
    it doesn’t have to be a burden, I swap esc and caps lock for better ergonomics.
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  ngoldbaum 4 years ago | link
  
  There’s also sl: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
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    skade Rust Community Team 4 years ago | link
    
    Of which I’m a huge fan. Also contains criticism of gti, debian and systemd.
    
    Sorry for linking to a comment on a different platform, but in this instance, I don’t want to waste vertical space here.

technomancy 4 years ago | link

Another favorite:

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "192.30.255.112 gitgit.git" >> /etc/hosts'
$ git config --global alias.git clone
$ git git git://gitgit.git/git/git.git

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KevinMGranger 4 years ago | link

This is only somewhat relevant, but I just discovered that newer versions of git now support your XDG CONFIG dir, so you can move your global gitconfig to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config (usually ~/.config/git/config)
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  4ad 4 years ago | link
  
  Sounds awful, why would I made it harder to get to it? I hate dotfiles, but I’d rather make the file visible where it is, or in some easy to get directory like ~/lib instead of hiding it even more.
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    inactive-user 4 years ago | link
    
    But if everyone hides their stuff in the same pattern then config is easy to find.
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    hawski 4 years ago | link
    
    Then you can change XDG_CONFIG_HOME to point to ~/lib
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      4ad edited 4 years ago | link
      
      Oh yeah, that’s what I need, even more state and configuration. No thanks.
      
      Not that I said ~/lib/file, not ~/lib/foo/config. At least without this XDG nonsense (.local? .config? .cache? .run? Fuck you XDG!), even if my files have stupid dotnames, they are all in one single directory, $HOME…
      
      I’ll stick to this scheme, thanks.
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        singpolyma 4 years ago | link
        
        could set XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME ;)
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        hawski 4 years ago | link
        
        Chill. I don’t like excess configuration also.
        
        XDG is indeed overt. However I at least appreciate .cache a bit, because it’s one directory that I can safely remove to reclaim some bytes.
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silentbicycle 4 years ago | link

I did this too, except I pipe it through cowsay instead: git = !exec cowsay git

pl 4 years ago | link

I like the strace output…

$ strace  -f -e execve git git git git git git git git status 2>&1 | grep bin\/sh
[pid 27778] execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "exec git \"$@\"", "exec git", "git", "git", "git", "git", "git", "git", "status"], [/* 55 vars */]) = 0
[pid 27780] execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "exec git \"$@\"", "exec git", "git", "git", "git", "git", "git", "status"], [/* 55 vars */]) = 0
[pid 27782] execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "exec git \"$@\"", "exec git", "git", "git", "git", "git", "status"], [/* 55 vars */]) = 0
[pid 27784] execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "exec git \"$@\"", "exec git", "git", "git", "git", "status"], [/* 55 vars */]) = 0
[pid 27786] execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "exec git \"$@\"", "exec git", "git", "git", "status"], [/* 55 vars */]) = 0
[pid 27788] execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "exec git \"$@\"", "exec git", "git", "status"], [/* 55 vars */]) = 0
[pid 27790] execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "exec git \"$@\"", "exec git", "status"], [/* 55 vars */]) = 0

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caius 4 years ago | link

I’m glad someone else had the same thought, it pleased me no end to see it laid out in system calls!

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user545 4 years ago | link

I have never had this problem but thanks for the solution.
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adamo 4 years ago | link

It happens to me when I may type something like “git !!” or “git !$” while on the wrong terminal. Nice.
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inactive-user 4 years ago | link

The one I always mess up is that github just gives you the clone repo location but bitbucket gives you the whole clone command, so I write git clone git clone git@bitbucket.org:.... I wonder whether I can alias the clone command to correct for that.
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  KevinMGranger 4 years ago | link
  
  From the git-config manpage:
  
  To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing Git commands are ignored.
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    ngoldbaum 4 years ago | link
    
    Months later the programmer was reading git –help config for a different reason and found enlightenment.
    
    From http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/#silence
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    caius 4 years ago | link
    
    However, a binary named git-command overrides the built in command. So you could stick a git-clone binary in your path that does what you want and it’ll be invoked rather than the built in command.
    
    I use this to override git clear to run /usr/bin/clear instead of removing all my local changes.
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flyingfisch 4 years ago | link

Related: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/2933
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MasonJar 4 years ago | link

I use gitsh instead, and don’t have to type git at all. Tab-complete of branch names is nice too.
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talklittle 4 years ago | link

Thanks for the tip! This and qgit are my 2 most common git typos.

qgit happens after doing a git diff and expecting a long diff opening in less, but I get a short diff instead, which does a cat to the terminal.

So I added alias qgit='git' to ~/.bash_aliases.
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incomingstick 4 years ago | link

I have NEVER had this issue. Great solution though!
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4ad 4 years ago | link

This has to be a joke. Is this a joke? I can’t tell.