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Is there a way to get git commands to autocomplete commands based on the shorthand version?

When working for another company, I used Mercurial a lot for version control. I really like git

it better, but one thing that really annoys me is that in Mercurial if I type:

hg stat

It's smart enough to figure out that the only command that could have been instead is hg status

, so doing that command is for me.

I know I do git

n't do this by default, but I'd like to. (BTW, I read http://www.evanjones.ca/git-shortcuts.html and know about aliases, but I don't have to set up an alias every time I want this behavior.)

I could write an addon for git

that does this, but first I'm wondering if there is a way to tweak git

to recognize this behavior that I want, and if not, is there already a plugin for this?

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Git Bash performs command autocompletion when TAB is pressed. If there is more than one parameter for the prefix you entered, pressing TAB twice displays all parameters. It even auto-completes the branch names.



git stat

will be completed before git status

when you press TAB.

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You said that you don't want to set up aliases, but there are many ready-made lists that you can copy / paste into your config. This is one such example.



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