How do I avoid typing “git” at the begining of every Git command?

Question

I\'m wondering if there\'s a way to avoid having to type the word git at the beginning of every Git command.

It would be nice if there was a way to use the

Answer 1

This is not exactly what you're asking for, but you could set up some shell aliases in your ~/.bashrc for the Git commands you use most frequently:

alias commit='git commit'
alias checkout='git checkout'
...

Also note that you can create aliases within Git itself:

git config --global alias.ci commit
git config --global alias.co checkout
...

This lets you type git ci instead of git commit, and so on.