🔗 Why "alias" is my last resort for aliases

Aliases were one of the first things I added when customizing my dotfiles. For example, here’s a very early alias I defined:

Now, I can run g instead of git, which saves me a little time for a command I run dozens of times a day!

# These two commands are now equivalent:
git status
g status

I used to define these aliases with alias. After all…I’m defining an alias!

But over time, I think I discovered a better way: a script in my $PATH.