[Pull request] Shortcut feature

[Ondrej Vaško]

Nicknames are not easy to implement, because it is hard to work with output
of *tree* command. Specifically the password files in tree output are only
last filenames which are not unique and to get the full unique path which
you can use as a key (path) to value (nick), you must somehow traverse the
tree backwards, find a nickname for that path and modify tree output to
show it in *pass ls/find* command.

Yes the other downside is that inode shortcuts will change among computers
of one person, but anyway I think this could be useful for many users.

2017-03-27 1:44 GMT+02:00 Thorsten Wißmann <edu at thorsten-wissmann.de>:

> Hi Ondrej,
>
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 04:34:06PM -0700, David A. wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:51:22 +0200, Ondrej Vaško wrote:
> > >This commit introduces shortcut argument *-s* or *--shortcut* to *pass
> show
> > >*command with which you can reference password not by full path, but by
> > >number, which reference the specific gpg file in your password storage
> > >directory.
> >
> > >After few days of thinking about an easy solution I decided to use an
> > >*inode* as a reference shortcut
> >
> > If you're going to implement a shortcut option, it should really be
> > something that makes referring to any entry easy and intuitive.
> > Something like nicknames that are shorter and easy to remember. inodes
> > are hardly that.
>
> Even worse: inodes differ using pass on different machines.
>
> David has indicated it already: In case one is looking for simple
> shorthands for the frequently used pass files, one can create a symbolic
> link with an descriptive name and add that to the git, e.g.:
>
>   $ cd ${PASSWORD_STORE_DIR:-$HOME/.password-store}
>   $ ln -sf mailinglists/password-store at lists.zx2c4.com.gpg passlist.gpg
>   $ git add !$ ; git commit -m 'ln'
>   $ pass show passlist
>
> Best Regards,
> Thorsten
>
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