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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] commit: add short option for --amend
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:39:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180816183903.GA3737@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180816183117.13716-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 08:31:17PM +0200, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> I just realized how often I type "git ci --amend". Looking back at my
> ~/.bash_history (only 10k lines) this is the second most often git
> command I type which may justify a short option for it (assuming that
> other people use this option often too, of course).
> 
> The short option space for 'git commit' is really crowded with
> acCeFhimnopqsStuvz already taken. So it could be '-M' or '-A' but I'd
> prefer not to hold shift, so I chose '-j' even though it's not
> strictly related to "amend" (or perhaps we can thinking of amending as
> joining commits).
> 
> Thoughts?

I also used to type it a lot. So I did:

  $ type a
  a is aliased to `git commit --amend'

I don't know if that argues for or against a short option.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-16 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-16 18:31 [PATCH/RFC] commit: add short option for --amend Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-08-16 18:39 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-08-16 18:46   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-17  6:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-17 14:33   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-17 15:26     ` Jeff King
2018-08-17 15:31       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-17 15:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-18  7:24 ` Simon Ruderich

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