Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Dec 15, 2006, 16:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20061215161257.GI17860@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612151106580.18171@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

> Wouldn't it be possible for aliases to be effective only when issued 
> from an interactive shell?  It is certainly true that aliases just make 
> no sense in a script.

Probably, but on Cygwin gitk needs to use 'git foo' to invoke a command, even if 'git-foo' exists, because 'git-foo' might be a shell script and the Cygwin wish process cannot execute shell scripts.

Worse it cannot pass down environment variables to git commands. So it may be a little hard to tell in the git wrapper we are being run from within gitk (or git-gui)...

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