This was my first thought as well. This might be an indictment of how obscure/confusing some git invocations are...hence the alias to human readable names. It

This was my first thought as well. This might be an indictment of how obscure/confusing some git invocations are...hence the alias to human readable names. It is kind of interesting that there is much interest, work and maintenance on these over-complications...There seems to be a related repo - git-extras - that does the same as this repo, and has 17k stars.