From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 16:41:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Message-ID: <87r3pz49r5.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsiafe6md.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 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,
-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org