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For those who don't know, you can make git pish have the same effect as git push by creating an alias between pish and push. Useful to do for any misspellings you make more than once.

$ git config --global alias.pish push

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Cannot for the life of me tell if this is a serious suggestion.

there are a couple things I typo frequently enough I've seriously considered it...

It is-- what is the perceived downside?

You have a giant list of common typos, making you a worse and worse typer as years go on, until you are mashing your head on the keyboard to type anything.

I dunno, I don't think that would really happen. I'm always trying to type the same word (I don't say "pish" in my head, after all, I think "push"), so it doesn't seem to be a random walk away from correctness, just some wavering around it. And it's not like I have that many commands I need to type commonly enough to make an alias for-- maybe a couple dozen? And for most of them, I don't make typos so I don't feel the need to make an alias.

I've actually done this for a couple commands I screw up often enough -- I have this in my bashrc:

  alias dumbtypo="echo 'LEARN TO TYPE, MORON'"
  alias sl="dumbtypo; ls"
  alias rbuy="dumbtypo; ruby"
  alias pytohn="dumbtypo; python"
  alias brwe="dumbtypo; brew"
  alias arhcey="dumbtypo; archey"

if you sudo apt install sl you will have more fun making that typo ;)

I'm incredulous that 'pythong' is not in there.

I can't not-type it.

I was worried I was the only one!

I type pythong all the time, too.

You ... type "python"? Not pyt[tab]?

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