Re: Git rescue mission

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 9, 2007, 01:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20070209015839.GG1556@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070209014852.GA13207@thunk.org>

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 05:10:23PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > 	git config alias.new "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD"
> > 
> > Would give you a new git subcommand:
> > 
> > 	git new
> > 
> > which shows all of the new stuff, on all branches, but doesn't show
> > your prior commit history.
> 
> Aliases don't seem to be working for me; I'm using git 1.5.0-rc4.  Am
> I doing something wrong?

Its not you. The problem is 'gitk' is not an internal command, nor is there a 'git-gitk'. So we cannot execute it. Instead we are giving back a horrible error message.

Symlink git-gitk to gitk and it works.

Sorry about giving false hopes.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.

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