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Comment by rgrau | Hacker News Reader

suffix aliases do not even have to refer to a real existing file. They are an alias. That's what I use to clone git repos I copypaste:

  alias -s git="git clone"

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That is brilliant. Thanks mate.

cheers!

happy hacking :)

wat? doesn't this prevent you from doing anything else w git?

Yeah...

Overwriting a command-line tool with no other arguments seems like a bad idea.

No, this really only addresses the situation where the URL ends with (suffix) “git”.

The only time I use the full URL is the initial cloning, and the remote name thereafter. But if you use the full URL in another scenario, yes, this may interfere.

I don't believe so since I think suffix aliases are only affected by the "file extension" of the command you've added. The suffix alias in the OP is saying that if they paste something that ends with ".git", then clone that thing (i.e. if you paste the git url for a repo, it clones it). It doesn't overwrite the git command

As others commented, this only acts when the first word in your commandline ends with '.git'.

    - "git", alone isn't going to be hooked.
    - you can do "cd .git".
    - even if you have 'autocd' option set, you can '.git' and it will do "cd .git".

I'm not saying it's even a good practice, but I find it kinda cool, when using this feature in a way it's probably not intended for, you start thinking in 'what might happen inside'.

This allows you to enter

  https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh.git

Into your shell, and have it automatically get translated into

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh.git

It has no effect at all on your ability to run regular git commands.

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