Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 15, 2006, 23:22 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612160020590.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612151029080.18171@xanadu.home>

Hi,

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice to have some generic place in git config to specify
> > default options to git commands (at least for interactive shell). It
> > cannot be done using aliases. Perhaps defaults.<command> config variable?
> 
> I would say the alias facility has to be fixed then.
> 
> In bash you can alias "ls" to "ls -l" and it just works.

So, why not use bash aliases?

Frankly, what git aliases try to achieve is a little bit different from bash aliases. Bash knows exactly when a command is interactive, and has a clear advantage there. Git _cannot_ know.

Ciao, Dscho

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