Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> * You can help yourself with something like this, I suppose:
>>>
>>> [alias]
>>> git = "!sh -c 'exec git \"$@\"' -"
>>>
>>> but I personally feel that it is too ugly to live as part of our
>>> official suggestion, so please do not send a patch to add it as
>>> a built-in alias ;-).
>>
>> So I thought I was clever, but this didn't work:
>>
>> % ln -s /usr/bin/git ~/bin/git-git
>> % git git
>> fatal: cannot handle git as a builtin
>
> Why did you have to do that when I already gave an alias that works?
I was just toying around, and it would have been cute.
> Or didn't the alias work?
It does. This seems to work just as well, and is easier:
git = !git
Thanks,
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