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by Analemma_ 3188 days ago
I used to do that, but I found it wasn’t actually saving me any cognitive load.

My newer philosophy toward git aliases is the one described here: http://gggritso.com/human-git-aliases. After reading this I totally overhauled my .gitconfig and replaced it with the one described here and I’m a lot happier.

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I don't use either one anymore. I've switched to magit, which is faster than both and can also give you interactive menus and reminders of commands if you want.
I realized this myself. And eventually ended up with a fuzzy search thing (using FZF): https://github.com/chrissound/LinuxVerboseCommandLib

I can usually get away with typing the first letter of each word. So `gd` for git diff.