Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"

> Well, we have a more serious issue, that is related, but has nothing to do 
> with aliases.
>
> If you set an environment variable "diff.color=always", any script will 
> get that behaviour, and not work the way it might expect.
>
> My point being that this has nothing to do with "git-diff" vs "git diff", 
> and everything to do with default configurations. If you don't want people 
> to be able to change fixed behaviour, you'd need to have a way to disable 
> it.

> Quite frankly, I think it's _easier_ to disable with "git xyzzy" than with 
> "git-xyzzy", but hey, not a big deal. With "git xyzzy", we could add a 
> generic flag like
>
> 	git - xyzzy
>
> to make the rule be that no configurations (_including_ aliases) are 
> allowed to override default behaviour, which is much harder with the 
> "git-xyzzy" format (since then it's invariably a per-command thing).