From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:15:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alias: detect loops in mixed execution mode
Message-ID: <20181022211545.GA15713@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87efckctqa.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 09:18:21PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> We didn't support chained aliases at all before, so I think the odds
> that people will run into this now will increase as they add "!" to
> existing aliases, and I'd like to have git's UI friendly enough to tell
> users what went wrong by default, and not have to resort to the likes of
> GIT_TRACE=1 which really should be left to powerusers.

It's true that non-! aliases couldn't recurse before, but couldn't "!"
ones always do so?

-Peff