From: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 13:24:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Message-ID: <20150529132453.GA1308@pug.qqx.org>
In-Reply-To: <87zj4n4w3t.fsf@gmail.com>

At 10:38 +0200 29 May 2015, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>>  * You can help yourself with something like this, I suppose:
>>
>>    [alias]
>> 	git = "!sh -c 'exec git \"$@\"' -"
>>
>>    but I personally feel that it is too ugly to live as part of our
>>    official suggestion, so please do not send a patch to add it as
>>    a built-in alias ;-).
>
>So I thought I was clever, but this didn't work:

I've done the same as the original poster a few times myself, so awhile 
ago I added the following to my .gitconfig file:

[alias]
    git         = "!f() { git $@; }; f"

And this has worked for me.