From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 03:58:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for configurable git command aliases
Message-ID: <20060529035857.GA7641@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <e5d9sm$5d4$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:57:26AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Well, if [alias] would be used also for giving default options for git
> commands, e.g.
> 
>         [alias]
>             log = log --pretty

A funny side effect of that would be that "git log" and "git-log" would
now have completely different defaults (unless the alias mechanism
starts intercepting direct calls to git-*, which seems invasive). I
wonder if it might be simpler to just add 
  core.defaults.log = "--pretty"
or similar.

-Peff