I use git in a terminal all day, every day. 3 characters adds up if you type them enough, g i t, so let’s shorten what we have to type.

You shorten a command by making a shorter alias. So I alias g to git:

alias g=git

I like terminal commands with completion, especially a command like git with a many, long arguments. Aliases do not automatically assume the original command’s completion. Here’s how we add completion to our alias:

compdef g=git

And boom! You can do g st<TAB> to complete status. The compdef makes the g alias complete as if ZSH was completing git instead.

Now I git away by typing g.