If you...

• Like to type all git command in terminal.
• Are sick of typing all of file path when you want to git add or diff selectively?(Although current shells support auto completion.)

Then...

'git number' can be your secret weapon.

Fortunately I found this few months ago and I became a big fan of it.

Here is a link : github link

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What is Git number?

'Git number' is a couple of scripts which make numbering to files shown up by 'git status'.

And you can do git command by its number, not file name.

For Example.

$ git number --column
# On branch master
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#1      .README.swp
#2      README

'git number --column' is same as 'git status' in git number. I will make alias for this.

$ git number add 1
$ git number add 1 5
$ git number add 1-5

And you can add file like this. One file each, Several files each, Several files with range

This is AWESOME. Thanks holygeek.

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How to use

Below explaination is following instruction from git hub link.

1. Clone the project

$ git clone https://github.com/holygeek/git-number.git  

2. Copy 3 scripts to one of your directory in system PATH.

In my case /usr/bin

$ cp git-list /usr/bin
$ cp git-number /usr/bin
$ cp git-id /usr/bin

3. Make alias for git commands

git status is same as

$ git number --column

and other commands are same as

$ git number <original git command> [parameters]

So I made alias for these in shell configuration file.

alias gs="git number --column"
alias ga="git number add"
alias gd="git number diff"
alias gr="git number reset"

4. Enjoy!