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by fouc 995 days ago
> Everyone does this

I disagree, experienced *nix users probably remember a TON of commands outright, after going through multiple distros/*nixes over the years.

Personally I have maybe ~30 aliases that are actually used. There's almost no point in inventing aliases that will go unused or be rapidly forgotten etc.

git has it's own alias config which I prefer to use instead. some examples: st=status, co=checkout, ci=commit, cp = cherry-pick, mod=add -u.

so that means I do 'g st' instead of 'ss', yeah, a couple extra keypresses but I'm okay with that.