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Re: Bug: Hierarchical Aliases no longer work in 2.54.0

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MGMichael Grossfeld <michael.grossfeld@amd.com>
Date
Apr 23, 2026, 22:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20260423224653.893-1-Michael.Grossfeld@amd.com>
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<ea07acab-313d-435d-8328-e601fee980c3@web.de>
> Broken by ac1f12a9de4 (alias: support non-alphanumeric names via
> subsection syntax, 2026-02-18).
> Alias sections were not documented before.  How did you discover them?
Sheer dumb luck. I gravitated to it rather than a dash/hyphen based approach when I was creating aliases for my team.
> I think the previous behavior can be brought back while keeping the
> new feature, except for aliases that end in ".command".
That would work for me.
> Which works, right?
Yes, doing 'alias.pull.sub.command' works, but for the users on my team that have the old aliases, they are crashing.
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Message 5 of 18 in “Bug: Hierarchical Aliases no longer work in 2.54.0”
  1. Grossfeld, MichaelApr 23, 2026
  2. Jeff KingApr 23, 2026
  3. Michael GrossfeldApr 23, 2026
  4. René ScharfeApr 23, 2026
  5. Michael GrossfeldApr 23, 2026
  6. Jonatan HolmgrenApr 24, 2026
  7. alias: restore support for simple dotted aliasesJonatan Holmgren, Apr 24, 2026
  8. Kristoffer HaugsbakkApr 24, 2026
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2026
  10. Jonatan HolmgrenApr 25, 2026
  11. Jeff KingApr 25, 2026
  12. Jeff KingApr 25, 2026
  13. Jonatan HolmgrenApr 26, 2026
  14. Jeff KingApr 26, 2026
  15. Jonatan HolmgrenApr 27, 2026
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 12, 2026
  17. Jeff KingMay 19, 2026
  18. alias: restore support for simple dotted aliasesJonatan Holmgren, Apr 24, 2026

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