From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:30:43 GMT
Subject: allowing aliases to override builtins to support default options
Message-ID: <76718490903061430s2fbea2dfibe06282fd22b1588@mail.gmail.com>

Currently git does not allow aliases to override builtins. I
understand the reasoning behind this, but I wonder if it's overly
conservative.

Most shells support overriding commands with aliases, and I'm not sure
why git needs to be more conservative than the shell. (Although, I
will say, I hate when vendors alias rm to "rm -i", etc...)

It seems like this would be an elegant way to support default options.
Were it to be supported, it should probably have an escape hatch, such
as git --no-alias COMMAND, and it should probably only apply to
porcelains.

Thoughts?

j.