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Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?

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Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
Date
May 29, 2015, 08:38 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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>  * 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

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  3. Jeff KingMay 28, 2015
  4. Christian NeukirchenMay 29, 2015
  5. Aaron SchrabMay 29, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2015
  7. Stefan BellerMay 29, 2015
  8. Christian NeukirchenMay 29, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2015
  10. Konstantin KhomoutovMay 28, 2015
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