> Everyone does this I disagree, experienced *nix users probably remember a TON of commands outright, after going through multiple distros/*nixes over the year

> Everyone does this I disagree, experienced *nix users probably remember a TON of commands outright, after going through multiple distros/*nixes over the years. Personally I have maybe ~30 aliases that are actually used. There's almost no point in inventing aliases that will go unused or be rapidly forgotten etc. git has it's own alias config which I prefer to use instead. some examples: st=status, co=checkout, ci=commit, cp = cherry-pick, mod=add -u. so that means I do 'g st' instead of 'ss', yeah, a couple extra keypresses but I'm okay with that.