how do I manually install the sync and submit aliases?

[josharian]

I had an existing git-related tool on my machine that had already squatted the aliases sync and submit. I no longer use it. However, when I ran branchless init for the first time, it skipped setting up its own aliases. I removed the old aliases, and would like to install the branchless aliases now, but I don't know how to do that. Rerunning branchless init again doesn't do it, and I don't want to go rooting around through the source code to find out what the right answer is. Can you advise? Thanks very much.

[claytonrcarter]

I could have sworn that branchless init installed missing aliases when I've run it in the past, but maybe that was only for newly introduced aliases? 🤷

Anyway, they are just regular git aliases, stored in the repo-local config file .git/branchless/config. You can either edit that file manually to add them, or run something like git config -f .git/branchless/config alias.sync 'branchless sync' etc. You'll have to do that in each affected repo. (You can also just install the aliases globally, w/ the risk being that you may run it in a repo that hasn't been inited.)

[josharian]

Ah--that was the data point I needed. git sync -> git branchless sync, and the same for submit. Thanks!

[arxanas]

git-branchless will install missing aliases, but if you already have an alias of the same name installed, then git-branchless will not overwrite it so that you're not surprised. The intention is that you should manually install conflicting aliases with git config.

[josharian]

Yep. That all made sense to me. The problem was that after it refused to overwrite them, I didn’t know what to manually set them to. Maybe the “not overwriting” message could provide the commands one would run manually as desired.