add support for git alias commands about meta-git HOT 9 CLOSED

I agree @JordanAdams, for now I created an alias in my shell:

function gitm {
    args="$@"
    meta exec "git $args"
}

I use my commands like:

gitm st
gitm co branch

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meta exec "alias" ?

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Considering git st as an alias to git status.
Executing meta git st is much better than meta exec "git st".

Don't you agree?

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These are aliases in general, not particular to git. Unfortunately, your aliases are determined by your local ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, etc, file and there's no easy way to assume what shell or profile file someone will be depending on for normal use. Since we use child_process.exec, essentially, to execute these processes, a new shell is being spawned which will not have access to the aliases that would otherwise be set up by these files.

Happy to field a PR for something that would implement making it work, but it was a bit to bite off last I looked into it.

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Usually these alias is configured directly from git using git config --global alias.st status or git config alias.st status.

This configuration uses git config file in .git/config or ~/.gitconfig to save this settings:

The file looks like:

...
[alias]
	co = checkout
	st = status
...

Maybe using this config file could be possible to extends to use git's aliases, right?

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Would it be simpler to just make meat-git act as a super thin passthrough for git? Essentially meta git [args] will just perform git [args] across each repo. This would allow for full feature parity with git and any aliases the user has set up.

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