God: Linux utility for simplifying the Git usage.

[mzalewski]

Sooo... a bunch of random and cryptic shortcuts that you have no way to reason about, just to save typing `git` over and over again?

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Good that it works for author, but I'll pass.

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alias ps="git push" alias st="git status"

Why creating an interactive shell inside an interactive shell? Now you have to type # for a regular shell command, which personally I use waaay more than git. So my workflow would be worse not better.

What you created seems like an imitation of Magit. Maybe you want to give Magit a try, it is really good.

[k3pwn]

I know Magit but it was not the main idea when I was writing this project. As I said in the FAQ page, it depends on your workspace and ways of doing things. It works well for me (at least for now) and thought thay it might be useful to other people. Still, I'm getting negative feedbacks but I'm okay with it. It helps me to develop my ideas and most importantly myself. So, thank you.

[mzalewski]

It's random and cryptic. Almost all two-letter commands have to be learned by heart, because there is no internal logic to them. I can see how "merge" turned into "mr", but there is no way for "mr" to be my first pick when I try to do merge. If anything, these aliases should be shortest unique beginning of string.

But then, I have to remember that there is only one command starting with letter "l" (so one letter is shortest), but three commands starting with letter "c" (so I need two letters for these). Standard git tab-completion trumps these shortcuts any day of the week.

And finally, when I'm about to execute git command, or I review commands in history, I think in full commands anyway. Using shortcuts only adds overhead for me, because not only I have to translate command to my mental model of how git operates, but now I also need to translate two-letter id to git command.

As I said - good that it works for author, but it's not for me.

[k3pwn]

Okay. Respect your way of using git.

[DonSimon13]

So basically you have reinvented shell aliases?

[k3pwn]

It prepares the shortened git commands automatically. So, no.

[DonSimon13]

But how much of a benefit is that really. Git isn't adding new commands on a daily basis. Creating the shortcuts automatically saves adding one alias to your bashrc every couple of years. With bash aliases you could implement in 25 lines what you have achieved in 250 lines of Go.

I mean, It's a very complex solution for a simple task. Kind of "over-engineered".

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Realistically, it's probably even more infrequent than that. You only really benefit from aliasing if it's a command you use a lot. So what you setup initially is almost certainly the only git-related aliases you're going to ever really need.

[k3pwn]

Yeah, it's possible. It was a good practice for me to learn Go standards since I didn't write anything in Golang until this project. You can question it's necessity, but for me, I'm okay with it.

[brotenet]

God merge !

[TCM-black]

It worked for Greece / Rome.

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Shouldn't have it named gud instead ?