Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Christian Neukirchen writes: > I was just toying around, and it would have been cute. > >> Or didn't the alias work? > > It does. This seems to work just as well, and is easier: Thanks; I was wondering if I gave something that was not portable or something. > git = !git I'd call that the ultimate cuteness. We have a winner ;-) ;-) ;-). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Junio C Hamano writes: > Christian Neukirchen writes: > >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >>> * You can help yourself with something like this, I suppose: >>> >>>[alias] >>> git = "!sh -c 'exec git \"$@\"' -" >>> >>>but I personally feel that it is too ugly to live as part of our >>>official suggestion, so please do not send a patch to add it as >>>a built-in alias ;-). >> >> So I thought I was clever, but this didn't work: >> >> % ln -s /usr/bin/git ~/bin/git-git >> % git git >> fatal: cannot handle git as a builtin > > Why did you have to do that when I already gave an alias that works? I was just toying around, and it would have been cute. > Or didn't the alias work? It does. This seems to work just as well, and is easier: git = !git Thanks, -- Christian Neukirchenhttp://chneukirchen.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Thanks a lot for the discussion! So I'll just fix it locally for me and we keep the state as is. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Christian Neukirchen writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> * You can help yourself with something like this, I suppose: >> >>[alias] >> git = "!sh -c 'exec git \"$@\"' -" >> >>but I personally feel that it is too ugly to live as part of our >>official suggestion, so please do not send a patch to add it as >>a built-in alias ;-). > > So I thought I was clever, but this didn't work: > > % ln -s /usr/bin/git ~/bin/git-git > % git git > fatal: cannot handle git as a builtin Why did you have to do that when I already gave an alias that works? Or didn't the alias work? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
At 10:38 +0200 29 May 2015, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
Junio C Hamano writes:
* You can help yourself with something like this, I suppose:
[alias]
git = "!sh -c 'exec git \"$@\"' -"
but I personally feel that it is too ugly to live as part of our
official suggestion, so please do not send a patch to add it as
a built-in alias ;-).
So I thought I was clever, but this didn't work:
I've done the same as the original poster a few times myself, so awhile
ago I added the following to my .gitconfig file:
[alias]
git = "!f() { git $@; }; f"
And this has worked for me.
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Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Junio C Hamano writes: > * You can help yourself with something like this, I suppose: > >[alias] > git = "!sh -c 'exec git \"$@\"' -" > >but I personally feel that it is too ugly to live as part of our >official suggestion, so please do not send a patch to add it as >a built-in alias ;-). So I thought I was clever, but this didn't work: % ln -s /usr/bin/git ~/bin/git-git % git git fatal: cannot handle git as a builtin -- Christian Neukirchenhttp://chneukirchen.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Stefan Beller writes: > so I just run into this problem again (which happens to me maybe twice > a week): > I want to do a git operations, so I type "git " into my shell, and > then [...] I copy the whole operation "git revert --abort" in this case and > paste it to the shell On my side, that wouldn't be twice a week, but I often do the same mistake. I find your idea for a solution conceptually ugly but practically very convenient ;-), so I'd be in favor of doing it. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
On Wed, 27 May 2015 17:28:34 -0700
Stefan Beller wrote:
> so I just run into this problem again (which happens to me maybe
> twice a week): I want to do a git operations, so I type "git " into
> my shell,
[...]
> then I copy the whole operation "git revert --abort" in this case and
> paste it to the shell and let go.
> The result looks like
> $ git git revert --abort
> git: 'git' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
[...]
> I wonder if we want to make a "git" subcommand, which behaves exactly
> the same as git itself?
> Then "git git git status" would just return the same as "git status".
In your ~/.whateverrc, put this:
git() {
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
test "$1" != "git" && break;
shift;
done;
command git $@;
}
This assumes a POSIX-compatible shell but I think you've got the idea.
("command" is a builtin which forces interpreting the following word as
the name of an external program.)
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Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 06:53:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I wonder if we want to make a "git" subcommand, which behaves exactly > > the same as git itself? > > Then "git git git status" would just return the same as "git status". > > A few unrelated thoughts. > > * Perhaps we should omit 'git' from these advice-texts? E.g. > > use "revert --abort" to cancel > >I dunno. Please don't. You help the set of people who type "git" and then paste the rest of the command at the expense of people who just paste the whole command. We don't know the relative numbers of those people, but we know there is at least 1 in each group. ;) -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Stefan Beller writes: > so I just run into this problem again (which happens to me maybe twice a > week): > I want to do a git operations, so I type "git " into my shell, and > then I look around what > exactly I want to do and usually I find it in the help text of a > previous command such as > You are currently reverting commit 383c14b. > (fix conflicts and run "git revert --continue") > (use "git revert --abort" to cancel the revert operation) > > then I copy the whole operation "git revert --abort" in this case and > paste it to the shell > and let go. > The result looks like > $ git git revert --abort > git: 'git' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. > > Did you mean this? > init > > I wonder if we want to make a "git" subcommand, which behaves exactly > the same as git itself? > Then "git git git status" would just return the same as "git status". A few unrelated thoughts. * Perhaps we should omit 'git' from these advice-texts? E.g. use "revert --abort" to cancel I dunno. * While we bend over backwards to a certain degree to be helpful, I somehow feel making "git git" a synonym to "git" is going too far, akin to asking POSIX maintainers to define "act", "cta", "atc", "tca", and "tac" all as synonyms to "cat" because you often fat-finger when typing "cat" (yes, "tac" does something else that is more useful, I know). * You can help yourself with something like this, I suppose: [alias] git = "!sh -c 'exec git \"$@\"' -" but I personally feel that it is too ugly to live as part of our official suggestion, so please do not send a patch to add it as a built-in alias ;-). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Hi, so I just run into this problem again (which happens to me maybe twice a week): I want to do a git operations, so I type "git " into my shell, and then I look around what exactly I want to do and usually I find it in the help text of a previous command such as You are currently reverting commit 383c14b. (fix conflicts and run "git revert --continue") (use "git revert --abort" to cancel the revert operation) then I copy the whole operation "git revert --abort" in this case and paste it to the shell and let go. The result looks like $ git git revert --abort git: 'git' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. Did you mean this? init I wonder if we want to make a "git" subcommand, which behaves exactly the same as git itself? Then "git git git status" would just return the same as "git status". Thanks, Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
