A Dedicated Shell For Git Commands

Nw submitter CMULL writes "Stop typing Git over and over again. Ruby on Rails development and consulting firm thoughtbot created an interactive shell dedicated to Git commands, gitsh. One of the primary developers says there is a need for this shell because many early Unix utilities don't take sub-commands like Git."

I don't see the point

[godrik]

I am using git all the time. But most of the time, I am doing less than 5 different commands. Why would you need a shell for that?

It's three letters

[Arancaytar]

Effort-wise, switching into and out of a git-specific shell just to save those three letters is a huge hassle and not worth it. (The tab completion thing is not an advantage; regular git already does that in bash.)

For any actual development work you'll keep using both git and non-git commands; opening text editors, diffing and patching outside git, running scripts and shell snippets or sed commands. How do you pass those out of the git shell? Using an exclamation mark, like in ed? That really just inverts the problem, adds the problem of remembering whether you're currently in gitsh or bash, and adds confusion between the two environment variable scopes.

Re:why not just use shell aliases?

[phantomfive]

"Those who fail to understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it, poorly."