Re: git-bisect feature suggestion: "git-bisect diff"
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Dec 7, 2007, 22:03 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:44:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Well, I think "git view" should not be just "predefined alias that the >> user can override wholesale", which is what you currently have. I think >> it can just be an example in "git config" manpage (i.e. "If you want to, >> you can alias 'view' to 'gitk' or 'gitview'") and I do not think we need >> core-side support for that. > > Sure, but regular aliases already do that. The point of making it a > "builtin" alias is that we can depend on it being there. But who is > depending?
Nobody is depending.
And I think the reason nobody depends on it is because there is no compelling reason to. Perhaps the behaviour is not useful enough. It surely is the case for "bisect view".