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a nasty git alias hack

Clive Da on January 17, 2020

a nasty git bash alias hack DO NOT DO THIS IN THE REAL WORLD create a file ~/.bash_aliases $ cat ~/.bash_aliases alias ga="git add ." alias gc...

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Maurits van Riezen • Jan 17 '20

If you replace

alias gc='git commit -m "autocommit"'

with just

alias gc='git commit -m'

You could do

gc "Fixed something"

and it would be a timezaver for real projects too

Clive Da • Jan 17 '20

you havent met my mgr have you ? so thanks but "fixed something" would be unacceptable :) it needs to have the JIRA num in it at least

Daniel Brady • Jan 19 '20 • Edited

😆 👍 Good manager you've got there, Clive. I don't think mine has ever even seen my commit messages, let alone cares about them.

But I think Maurits' point was more that if you don't include a default commit message in the alias, you can save yourself some typing (by shortening git commit -m to gc) while still requiring a message from yourself on the command line.

I started using Zsh as a default shell instead of Bash a few years ago (no real reason besides curiosity) along with the Oh My Zsh framework, and that framework adds a metric shit-ton of git aliases along those lines.

I don't use them these days as I prefer interacting with git directly from my editor, but I tried them out in the beginning and they were fun to use for awhile.