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Re: git-send-email and aliases

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 27, 2007, 11:02 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:59:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> It might be easier but I do not think that is useful.  When
> git-commit runs the $EDITOR for the commit log message, I think
> people would expect (if you are using vi) "!!git log" to honor
> their alias.

Then git-commit can unset GIT_NOALIAS when it expects to call into "user" code such as the editor.

A potentially bigger problem with any such scheme is that non-git scripts would have to set GIT_NOALIAS. Not a big deal for new scripts, but it might break old scripts.

-Peff
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