Re: [git-users] Highlevel (but simple to implement) commands provided by default for git

> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> Bráulio Bhavamitra wrote:
>
>>> Agree, these aliased should work as a fallback or as an automatic short
>>> version
>>
>> Making builtins override'able is also a terrible idea.  It opens doors
>> to potential bugs we don't want to deal with.  Simple example:
>>
>>    am = log -1
>>    log = am -3
>
> That's detectable and could be made to error out, so it's not too bad.
>
> A bigger problem (in my opinion) with allowing arbitrary changes to
> the meaning of existing commands is that scripts, whether placed in
> .sh files or given as commands to run over IRC, stop working
> altogether.  It's nice to have commands like "git log" and "git am"
> mean the same thing no matter what machine I am on.