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by moregrist 522 days ago
Aliases have always been a double-edged sword.

They're shorter and let you be more efficient at common tasks.

They also tend to be personal and hard to share. Which can make it harder to explain what you’re doing to a coworker for pairing/debugging/training purposes. And you have to remember both the aliases and the underlying commands/options, at least enough to remember when you don’t want to use the alias.

I don’t find that I use git subcommands with a frequency that makes me want to alias them. It’s likely that different workflows lead to different optimizations.