From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:03:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git-bisect feature suggestion: "git-bisect diff"
Message-ID: <7vprxiyxfj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071207215514.GA11784@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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".