Hello! My name is Thomas and I'm a nerd. I like tech and gadgets and speculative fiction, and playing around with programming. It's not my day job, but I'm working on making it a side gig :)
I rely on git aliases rather than shell aliases, and I try not to go overboard with the amount of aliases either.
I use YADM to manage my dotfiles and since it wraps git it will automatically pick up on git aliases, e.g yadm alias is the same as git alias, but I couldn't do yadm zsh-alias.
Shortening some commands is highly useful if I do them a lot, but if I write a bunch of aliases for nearly everything I've replaced learning git commands with learning git aliases. It's increasing my mental workload instead of easing it because I have to memorize the alias and what it stands for.
I also have to use other VCS sometimes, and by retaining the git prefix on git commands I find it's easier to remember what is what since terminology is similar but not identical between VCS.
Hello! My name is Thomas and I'm a nerd. I like tech and gadgets and speculative fiction, and playing around with programming. It's not my day job, but I'm working on making it a side gig :)
There's a whole bunch of options in that space, but I prefer the simplicity and straightforwardness of YADM. It's basically just a wrapper around git allowing you to track files without making an actual repository, i.e. it only cares about files you manually add to it so a yadm status won't list dozens of unrelated files and folders.
It also imposes no restrictions on folder structure etc.
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I rely on git aliases rather than shell aliases, and I try not to go overboard with the amount of aliases either.
I use YADM to manage my dotfiles and since it wraps git it will automatically pick up on git aliases, e.g
yadm aliasis the same asgit alias, but I couldn't doyadm zsh-alias.Shortening some commands is highly useful if I do them a lot, but if I write a bunch of aliases for nearly everything I've replaced learning git commands with learning git aliases. It's increasing my mental workload instead of easing it because I have to memorize the alias and what it stands for.
I also have to use other VCS sometimes, and by retaining the git prefix on git commands I find it's easier to remember what is what since terminology is similar but not identical between VCS.
I haven't heard of YADM before you mentioned it. I will look into it since I don't have a solution to manage all of my dotfiles yet.
There's a whole bunch of options in that space, but I prefer the simplicity and straightforwardness of YADM. It's basically just a wrapper around git allowing you to track files without making an actual repository, i.e. it only cares about files you manually add to it so a
yadm statuswon't list dozens of unrelated files and folders.It also imposes no restrictions on folder structure etc.