Re: Proposal: "unadd" command / alias.

[Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>]

On 27/10/2020 23:14, Filipp Bakanov wrote:
> It's the matter of UX. If many users have to make an alias for the
> same unclear command, at least it's a point to think about making this
> particular command more convenient. As far as I remember, some aliases
> were already added to git by default.
> What's bad with adding a popular (among many users) aliases, if they
> improve UX and make life easier?

One option maybe to curate a few of the more popular aliases within a
contrib/aliases file/directory.

Not sure how best to add comments into the alias file so folks can
remember what they are really meant to do, or where they copied them from.

Philip

>
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 01:54, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 01:02:11AM +0300, Filipp Bakanov wrote:
>>>>> Indeed, I have a similar alias in my ~/.gitconfig
>>> Why not just add it to git by default for everybody? revert-file is
>>> also ok, anything except `checkout HEAD --` will be good.
>> Because everyone may have their own favorite aliases?  Just because
>> *I* have the following aliases doesn't mean that everyone else would
>> find them useful.
>>
>> [alias]
>>         new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD
>>         dw = diff --stat --summary
>>         di = diff --stat --summary --cached
>>         dc = describe --contains
>>         revert-file = checkout HEAD --
>>         l  = log --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>>         lr = log --reverse --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>>         rl  = log -g --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %gd %gs %Cgreen(%gr)%Creset %s' --abbrev-commit
>>         rl1  = log -g --date=relative --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %gs %Cgreen%gd%Creset %s' --abbrev-commit
>>         lg  = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>>         lgt = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>>         rlt = log -g --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>>         lgt-nc = log --graph --pretty=format:'%h -%d %s (%cr)' --abbrev-commit
>>         st = status -s
>>         recent = for-each-ref --count=15 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short)'
>>         gerrit-clone = !bash ggh gerrit-clone
>>         start = !bash ggh start
>>         upload = !bash ggh upload
>>         prune-branches = !bash ggh prune-branches
>>         fixes = log -1 --pretty=fixes
>>
>> I have a huge number of bash aliases, and that doesn't mean everyone
>> else should have those bash aliases.  For that matter, I have the
>> following in ~/bin/git-rp-ext4 so that I can type "git rp-ext4
>> tags/ext4_for_linus".  But that doesn't mean this script is right for
>> everyone....
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>                                         - Ted
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> START=origin
>> URL=git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
>> END=""
>>
>> print_help ()
>> {
>>     PROG=$(basename "$0")
>>     echo "Usage: $PROG [-n] [--start <START COMMIT>] [--url <URL] [<END COMMIT>]"
>>     exit 1
>> }
>>
>> while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
>>     case $1 in
>>         --start) shift
>>                  START="$1"
>>                  ;;
>>         --url) shift
>>                URL="$1"
>>                ;;
>>         -n) NO_ACTION="echo" ;;
>>         -*) print_help ;;
>>         *)
>>             if test -n "$END"
>>             then
>>                 print_help
>>             else
>>                 END="$1"
>>             fi
>>             ;;
>>     esac
>>     shift
>> done
>>
>> $NO_ACTION git request-pull "$START" "$URL" "$END"
>>