Come on, those are very minor quibbles. If you want aliases, it's literally a matter of five minutes to find some (e.g. [1] is the 4th hit for a google search

Come on, those are very minor quibbles. If you want aliases, it's literally a matter of five minutes to find some (e.g. [1] is the 4th hit for a google search for "git aliases") and put them into your .gitconfig. And I would argue that prefixes are more confusing than helpful, especially in conjunction with aliases. For instance, going by prefixes you'd expect "co" to mean commit, yet in hg/svn it means clone/checkout. [1] http://gitready.com/intermediate/2009/02/06/helpful-command-aliases.html http://gitready.com/intermediate/2009/02/06/helpful-command-...