From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:51:22 GMT
Subject: Re: allowing aliases to override builtins to support default options
Message-ID: <76718490903061551m24a95ed8r2e334ff0e6f0fcf3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhc26qls3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Because sane shells do not expand aliases when used in a script, and gives
> a handy way to defeat the alias even from the command line.
>
>    $ alias ls='ls -aF'
>    $ echo ls >script
>    $ chmod +x script
>
> and compare:
>
>    $ ./script
>    $ ls
>    $ /bin/ls

Understood. And if git could do the same, still no?

j.