Re: Proposal: "unadd" command / alias.

[Filipp Bakanov <filipp@bakanov.su>]

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?

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"
>