I wrote a blog post about git-number and how useful it was for my command line git usage. In an on-going effort to simplify my lifestyle & setup, I replaced git-number with a few git aliases. I’ll explain how I recreated the functionality in this blog post. Why replace it? Looking at git-number’s source I realize it is written in Perl. I’m not here to cast judgement on another programming language but reading the code, it felt like overkill for my use cases. It also meant I could elimin...
