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Re: allowing aliases to override builtins to support default options

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 7, 2009, 02:57 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> What you dream about breaks a lot of scripts.
I said I understood the implications.
> So while it might be nice for you, you would make life of others much,
> much, much harder.  Not nice at all.

This is not something I am dreaming about, and I'm only interested to the extent that it improves git w/o hindering existing users. I'm certainly not aiming to be not nice to anyone!

For example, what if:
1. The aliases applied only to porcelain commands, not to plumbing.
2. The aliases worked only if stdout was a terminal, using the same
method that git uses for detecting when it is okay to start a pager.
3. git took --alias-builtins and --no-alias-builtins just like it
takes --paginate and --no-pager to override (2).
j.
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