Re: [PATCH] Support for configurable git command aliases

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: May 29, 2006, 08:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20060529080246.GT11941@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7v7j45d1wz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Mon, May 29, 2006 at 04:01:48AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:
> 
> >> I don't like this syntax. What other stuff (beside "cmd") would be under
> >> "[alias "co"]? Why not simply:
> >> 
> >>         [alias]
> >> 		co = commit -a
> >> 		publish = push public.site.com:/pub/scm/my-public-repo
> >
> > Nice, I like this.
> 
> Sorry, I don't.  The left hand side of '=' does not allow
> anything but alnum and squashes the case.

Does that really matter that much? Perhaps we might support something like

	"!ooOk" = commit -a

(and it will probably not do what the user expects if he sticks whitespaces in).

> Please stick to [alias "co"] syntax.

That sucks, e.g. because it's alias-specific, and it's inconsistent. I can't have anything like "cgalias" then.

Let's make some effort to keep the syntax clean...

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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