I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
With the Git plugin aliases, this workflow takes a lot less work:
To me, that looks like about 15-20% fewer letters to type to do essentially the same commands as before. It has none of the benefits of a script to make the process idempotent, won't work on someone else's computer and looks inscrutable in your shell history.
Looking over your shoulder or pair-programming? I have no idea what gstp does, because it's not something that exists outside of your alias list and I can't easily infer from context. It does something to do with git, but that's as far as I get before I have to add the next line to my cognitive load.
To each their own, of course! I also use scripts liberally, and make a point to fully type out my commands if I happen to be working with someone else 😊
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To me, that looks like about 15-20% fewer letters to type to do essentially the same commands as before. It has none of the benefits of a script to make the process idempotent, won't work on someone else's computer and looks inscrutable in your shell history.
Looking over your shoulder or pair-programming? I have no idea what
gstpdoes, because it's not something that exists outside of your alias list and I can't easily infer from context. It does something to do with git, but that's as far as I get before I have to add the next line to my cognitive load.The case against aliases
Ben Sinclair
I know why you want to use aliases, and I know they're handy. From mine:
To each their own, of course! I also use scripts liberally, and make a point to fully type out my commands if I happen to be working with someone else 😊