On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Alex Pilon <alp+l3go [ at ] alexpilon [ dot ] ca> wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:39:10PM -0400, Devin Linnington wrote: > > Don't comment on this list very often, but you could always just use a > git > > alias to save the majority of the command, > > But those were aliases in the first email… not sure what you mean? Do > you mean ‘here are some more useful aliases’, or just ‘aliases solve the > general problem’. > In your earlier exchange you were talking about manually typing stuff out, if it's something you only use once a month there's no way you would remember it so an alias makes more sense. That's all I was commenting on. > Unless you really want to override colour, you could use %C(auto). It > applies to the rest of the line. The choice of colours in lg1 is less > vivid than the auto, which is really just a matter of taste, > Indeed it is ;) Ultimately I would rather spend more time actually using git as a VCS then screwing around with esoteric formatting options, haha. Sometimes I get lost in the details without realizing what's important. > ignore=!([ ! -e .gitignore ] && touch .gitignore) | echo $1 > >>.gitignore > > Didn't know about !. Thanks. Didn't bother to look at aliases more—no > need then. > > Does this work when deep inside a subdir of the repo? > Yeah, you can use .gitignore files anywhere in the repo: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5698148/where-does-gitignore-file-belong However some OCD types may not like that, for me I don't particularly care. -Devin