Is it possible to run git commands without the git prefix

Question

As the name says, is it possible to run an interactive git shell where all commands are automatically prefixed with git ?

So instead:

 git fetch git add git commit 

I want to do something like this:

 git -i #start the 'interactive' git shell, not the right command obviously fetch #does git fetch add #does git add commit #does git commit git -x #exit the 'interactive' git shell 

Answer 1

I do not think that such a mode is built into git. I suggest you check out git-sh . You can configure it to use the aliases you prefer.

Answer 2

If you use a Bash shell, you can install a “command not found handler”, which is a shell function that will be run whenever a command is not recognized. You can use this to try running git-status if you run status and the shell cannot find this command, for example.

 command_not_found_handle() { gitcmd=`git --exec-path`/git-$1 ; if type -a $gitcmd >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then shift ; exec $gitcmd " $@ " ; fi ; echo "bash: $1: command not found" >&2 ; return 1 ; } 

This will not expand the git aliases, it only recognizes commands that exist as executables in the GIT_EXEC_PATH directory, for example /usr/libexec/git-core/git-status

 master*% src$ pwd /home/jwakely/src/foo/src master*% src$ git status -s M include/foo.h ?? TODO master*% src$ status -s # runs 'git-status -s' M include/foo.h ?? TODO master*% src$ git st # a git alias M include/foo.h ?? TODO master*% src$ st # does not recognize git alias bash: st: command not found 

If you want it to handle aliases, but with the disadvantage that any unrecognized command (including typos) will be passed to Git, you can make it a lot easier:

 command_not_found_handle() { git " $@ " ; } master*% src$ st # runs 'git st' M include/foo.h ?? TODO master*% src$ statu # runs 'git statu' git: 'statu' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. Did you mean one of these? status stage stash 

Answer 3

gitsh is maybe what you are looking for.

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/announcing-gitsh

And the github repository: https://github.com/thoughtbot/gitsh