From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:02:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git-send-email and aliases
Message-ID: <20070327110246.GA30217@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkhjne9k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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