From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:28:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Avoid using the git wrapper in git-rebase.sh.
Message-ID: <20060714232841.GA30169@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsg8qhj9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > Ideally 'shipped' commands (e.g. git-rebase) should avoid calling
> > the git wrapper when executing other commands to prevent the user
> > from shadowing those commands with aliases and causing the shipped
> > command behavior to differ unexpectedly.
> 
> In order to avoid confusion, we made aliases not to shadow real
> commands, so this is not an argument to support this patch.

Doh.  I must have missed the emails which decided that...  For some
reason I remember only the emails discussing shadowing happening
but that internal stuff should use 'git-am' to prevent the shadowing
from occuring.  Thanks for the correction.

-- 
Shawn.