Re: recursive aliases

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Sep 23, 2010, 11:34 UTC
Message-ID: <4C9B3B2A.2080604@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=VDmyhUDYKc38bOZWLncZ_twQGB2n5KgbgP_tf@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/23/2010 08:07 AM, Ramana Kumar wrote:

> Are recursive aliases in any way allowed?

They're not just not allowed; they're not even possible.

> What about aliases that don't refer to themselves, but refer to other aliases?
>

Again, this isn't possible. How could you configure something like that?

> Obviously I can just call git from the shell with a ! alias, but
> wondering if there's any better way.

There isn't. The simple aliases are there to let you run certain commands with certain default parameters as a new command. Normal commands have no way of calling other commands (or themselves) recursively. That's what shell-scripts are for.

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