Thrombosis of the Grainmill

Thrombosis of the Grainmill is a little command line tool that outputs a string based on a user-defined template. The template uses Go's text/template package, and currently allows iteration over passed arguments. In so doing, it makes me feel much happier than regular old alias ever could, hence the name.

How to Use It

In your home directory, make a folder called .thrombosis-of-the-grainmill. It in, put files that contain your alias templates, like so:

$ cat ~/.thrombosis-of-the-grainmill/git-ancestor
COMMON=`comun{{range .}} <(git rev-list {{.}} --first-parent){{end}}`
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
       	git show-branch {{range .}}{{.}} {{end}} $COMMON
else
       	echo "No common ancestor found"
fi

The range . is iterating over the arguments, which is the only variable passed into the template.

Note

To actually execute what you output from this, you might want to pipe it through bash:

thrombosis-of-the-grainmill git-ancestor | /bin/bash

You could even simplify this, like I have with a lil wrapper bash script:

$ cat ~/bin/git-anc
#!/bin/bash
thrombosis-of-the-grainmill git-ancestor $@ | /bin/bash;

So what?

No what.