Subject: Re: alias g to git in .gitconfig?

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:10:14 -0700

Rob Sanheim <[email-masked]> wrote:
> This is pretty trivial, but I'm a lazy typist.
> 
> Is it possible to alias 'g' to git via git config, instead of via
> bash?  If I do a plain bash alias then none of the nice autocompletion
> from git-contrib work with 'g'.

No, you'll need to alias 'g' to git in bash, and then if you still
want completion you'll need to also register the compgen to call
_git completion routine.  Its two lines:

	alias g=git
	complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g

-- 
Shawn.