shared gitconfig

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, January 07, 2013 17:54:40 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I know how the shell works quite well but that doesn't stop me from
> writing scripts and aliases.
> 
> This boils down to advocating one needs to type by hand sequences of
> commands instead of defining higher-level scripts that have a cohesive
> meaning.

If you want to create scripts or aliases for yourself, fine. And other people 
can do the same for whatever they need. But I think that any specific example 
of a git alias for D's repos needs to be examined in detail and have very 
strong arguments for its inclusion.

In my experience, the commands needed to operate on our repos are not 
complicated but rather are very basic git commands that anyone using git on a 
regular basis should know. And the command that you provided as an example 
that you thought needed an alias is a command that no one should even be using 
normally. I think that we need actual, solid examples if we're really going to 
discuss adding any aliases or scripts, and the example that you provided is a 
bad one.

- Jonathan M Davis