Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add alias option to git branch

2019-03-06 Thread Phil Sainty
I can only concur about the genuine usefulness of symbolic refs as branch aliases. I wrote my shell script for this 5 years ago, and I've made use of the facility almost every working day since. I jump around branches frequently, and my feature branch names always start with an issue/bug number f

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add alias option to git branch

2019-03-05 Thread Kenneth Cochran
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 7:21 AM Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Kenneth Cochran writes: > > > From c1bad54b29ae1c1d8548d248f6ecaa5959e55f7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Kenneth Cochran > > Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:40:22 -0600 > > Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add alias option to git branch

2019-03-05 Thread Junio C Hamano
Kenneth Cochran writes: > From c1bad54b29ae1c1d8548d248f6ecaa5959e55f7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Kenneth Cochran > Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:40:22 -0600 > Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add alias option to git branch > Cc: Sahil Dua , > Duy Nguyen , > Jeff King

[RFC PATCH 0/4] Add alias option to git branch

2019-03-04 Thread Kenneth Cochran
From c1bad54b29ae1c1d8548d248f6ecaa5959e55f7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Cochran Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:40:22 -0600 Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add alias option to git branch Cc: Sahil Dua , Duy Nguyen , Jeff King I find myself often using git symbolic-ref to get around work