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Comment by mvanga | Hacker News Reader

Do we really need a shell for this? If you're reusing some of these so often, why not just alias them in your bashrc? The interactive shell requires way more key-presses than any of my aliases not to mention sticking me into a shell that I need to exit out of later to get back to my development environment.

    $ cat ~/.bashrc | grep git
    alias gitc='git commit -a -s'
    alias gitls='git log --pretty=oneline'
    alias gitb='git branch'
    alias gitca='git commit -a --amend'
    alias gits='git status'

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    $ cat ~/.alias
    alias g='git'

    $ cat ~/.gitconfig
    [alias]
      st = status
      br = branch
      co = checkout

I don't see anyone else doing g='git' but I don't have to write out an alias for each command. For less frequently used git commands I forget an [alias] shortcut but I can always use the 'g' shortcut.

Yes, I use it too! Saves me a lot of time.

  $ cat ~/.bash_profile | grep git
  alias gco="git checkout"
  alias gpu="git pull"
  alias gcom="git commit"
  alias gfr="git fetch && git rebase -i"
  alias g="git"

For people using oh-my-zsh, the git plugin has similar ones and quite a few more handy ones.

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/plugin...

If you want to keep bash completion on working when having git aliased to g, try to add this line to your .bashrc:

  # Complete aliased git, too.
  complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g

I was curious about this, so I checked: zsh will preserve completions if you `alias g=git`.

it actually looked nice imho before i realized it's one helluva slow ruby app(sorry, i like ruby, and considering i'm on a haswell laptop, i think i deserve to have my shell commands execute instantly).

unlike the hub command by github(doing different things) the gem dependencies/parsley are not trivial to combine into a single standalone version, so if i chose to use this i would have to install this weird structure of a ruby gem that is distributed as some kind of app that installs itself into usr/lib(most probably because rubygems would make the startup time even slower).

apparently there's also this https://github.com/rtomayko/git-sh which is just bash. but yeah i think i'll just stick with my aliases and tig.

EDIT: i don't know how i saw a /usr/bin/ruby shebang, but forget that part of the rant

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