Re: allowing aliases to override builtins to support default options

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

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

It is not.

> Most shells support overriding commands with aliases, and I'm not sure
> why git needs to be more conservative than the shell.

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