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"you don't type git pull every time, do you?"

No, I fetch and then merge.

"Put those to your .bashrc or .zshrc"

git aliases should be added to gitconfig to avoid muddying the global namespace for commands.

It's not a git alias. It would be better to do this as a post-merge hook though.

I know it is not a gitalias, it is a shell wide alias for a command that involves git. That is why I said the better solution would be to use gitalias than your shell's alias functionality. With gitalias you can provide the same functionality without creating the possibility for command conflicts.

I don't like merge commits when you can avoid them.

Indeed... git pull --rebase is your friend (or better yet, set rebase as default strategy for pulls)

I don't know how to run a shell alias using a git alias, so I ended up creating a file ~/bin/fact, and defining the git alias as:

  [alias]
    ff = "!fact && git fetch"

If you're going to do this at least put the 'fact' call before the git command, otherwise it seems to defeat the purpose of reading the fact while the git fetch / merge completes.

I dont want to spoil the party but:

1) You really don't need Git to do this. Can you bind almost anything you like to make a call to this randomfact website. 2) The site doesn't only state facts. It says that elephants are the only animals that can't jump. This is simply not true, because snails for instance are animals as well, and it is proven that they can't jump.

The sed doesn't work on my box, here's one that does:

  elinks -dump randomfunfacts.com | sed -n '/^[┌│└]/p'

Only using curl:

WARNING: Replace ASTERISK with the asterisk character, keeps italicizing -.-

curl -s randomfunfacts.com | grep '<i>' | sed 's/.ASTERISK<i>\(.ASTERISK\)<\/i>.*/\1/'

Or better yet add color:

WARNING: REPLACE ASTERISK with the ATERISK character, keeps italicizing

alias facts="echo -ne '\033[36m'; curl -s randomfunfacts.com | grep '<i>' | sed 's/.ASTERISK<i>\(.ASTERISK\)<\/i>.*/\1/'; echo -ne '\033[0m'; tput sgr0"

And run it in BG so we don't have to wait for call to website before we pull

alias gpl="( facts ); git pull"

  Prepending two spaces to a line will prevent ***automatic formatting***.

  curl -s randomfunfacts.com | grep '<i>' | sed 's/.*<i>\(.*\)<\/i>.*/\1/'

you don need to use grep, only sed -n

Pretty fun idea, does anyone know of a good way to make this work on osx?

It does work on OSX, you just need to install elinks (brew install elinks ?)

It looks like elinks is available in Homebrew[1], so the only added step is brew install elinks

[1]: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

Also MacPorts, so

port install elinks

You need elinks, that's all. So: brew install elinks

Related question: How would one write this without the elinks dependency, using curl or wget?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335963

   curl -s randomfunfacts.com | sed -n 's/.*<i>\(.*\)<\/i>.*/\1/p'

The poor man's API. I love it.

Not guaranteed to not break: curl -s http://randomfunfacts.com | grep "<td border" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | sed 's/ //'

we should merge :] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bjkhdklfbghoadcaml...

I keep pulling even though my repo is up to date. These facts are addicting.

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