How do I avoid typing “git” at the begining of every Git command?

Question

I\'m wondering if there\'s a way to avoid having to type the word git at the beginning of every Git command.

It would be nice if there was a way to use the

Answer 1

I know this is a very late answer but this question really struck a note with me because I've been dealing with suffering from this kind of repetition for quite a while now.

I'm not sure about you but I honestly don't (I repeat DON'T) want to create aliases for every git command, so instead I wrote a python script called NoGit to solve this problem:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, os, signal, atexit, readline, subprocess

commands, stop, history_file = [], False, os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "git.history")

def run_commands():
  stop = True
  for cmd in commands:
    command = ["git" if not cmd.startswith("git ") else ""]
    command = [cmd] if command[0] == "" else [command[0], cmd]
    subprocess.Popen(command).communicate()
    commands = []

def signal_handler(sig, frame):
  run_commands()
  sys.exit(0)

try:
  readline.read_history_file(history_file)
  signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)

  while True:
    if stop == True:
      break
    command = input("git> ")
    if command == "%undo":
      commands.pop()
    elif command == "%run":
      run_commands()
    elif command == "%exit":
      sys.exit(0)
    else:
      commands += [cmd.strip() for cmd in command.split(";")]

  signal.pause()
  readline.set_history_length(-1)
except IOError:
  pass

atexit.register(readline.write_history_file, history_file)

NoGit is a simple python script to prevent the unnecessary repetition of the "git" keyword.

Documentation:

• the %undo command removes the last command from the stack
• the %run command runs the commands in the stack and clears the stack
• the %exit command closes the CLI without doing anything
• pressing ctr+c is the same as running %run; %exit
• the script saves commands that were executed to a file called git.history in the same folder as the script
• you can add multiple commands in one line using a semi-colon
• you can use the keyword git in the beginning of the command and the script won't duplicate it (E.G: git init doesn't become git git init)

Example commands:

1. init
2. add .
3. stage .
4. commit -m "inital commit"
5. %run; %exit

Additional information (for Linux users):

If you want you can remove the .py extension and convert it into an executable using:

mv ./git.py ./git
chmod +x ./git

Then instead of calling the script like this:

python3 git.py

You'd run this instead:

./git

Additional information (for lazy people):

If you're lazy and don't want to type out a ./ then you could move this script to your /bin/ folder and create an alias for it.

If you're really, really lazy, use the following commands:

sudo cp ./git /bin/nogit
sudo chmod +x /bin/nogit
alias nogit='/bin/nogit'

If you're really, really, really lazy, copy and paste the following one-liner:

sudo cp ./git /bin/nogit && sudo chmod +x /bin/nogit && alias nogit='/bin/nogit'

If your laziness has reached levels previously unknown to humanity, here is a more compact version of the same one-liner:

sudo cp ./git /bin/nogit;sudo chmod +x /bin/nogit;alias nogit='/bin/nogit'

Good luck.