When mentoring a junior, I noticed he had an alias `gpf`, which he apparently picked up from another developer.
I had a serious conversation with him, explaining that I'm not in the habit of telling him how to configure his shell, edit or general work environment. But an alias for `git push -f`, that I cannot condone. When you're doing that, the two seconds it takes to type it out should be rather low on the list of priorities.
So we had a good talk, and he genuinely understood the point I was trying to make. When I was about to leave, he looked at me sheepishly and asked:
I had a serious conversation with him, explaining that I'm not in the habit of telling him how to configure his shell, edit or general work environment. But an alias for `git push -f`, that I cannot condone. When you're doing that, the two seconds it takes to type it out should be rather low on the list of priorities.
So we had a good talk, and he genuinely understood the point I was trying to make. When I was about to leave, he looked at me sheepishly and asked:
"So I guess you want me to remove this one too?"
gacpf - git add . && git commit --amend && git push --force