Re: [PATCH] Support for configurable git command aliases (v3)

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jun 7, 2006, 00:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20060607002550.GB2609@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20060607001638.5175.77792.stgit@machine.or.cz>

Dear diary, on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:16:38AM CEST, I got a letter where Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> said that...

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> This patch adds support for configurable aliases for git commands -
> "alias.WHATEVER = which ever" will kick in when you do "git WHATEVER"
> and substitute WHATEVER with "which ever" (splitted to arguments at
> whitespaces).
> 
> The second version does all the work in handle_aliases() which was
> inspired by Johannes Schindelin's patch.
> 
> The third version does not expand aliases when called as 'git-something'
> or when the $GIT_NO_ALIASES environment variable is set; that is now
> done in git-sh-setup.sh. The documentation has been slightly expanded.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>

So, I chose the approach suggested by Linus, but I do not have a strong preference and if Junio still wants, we can rather just disallow aliases with the same name as builtins - I just think that it *might* be practical to add some default options to the commands without relearning your typing habits.

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