From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:03:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow aliases to expand to shell commands
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702112300500.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7n4cqti.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > ..., I think we're
> > still safe, since aliases can't override commands.  
> 
> I feel a bit uneasy to hear safety argument based on that current 
> restriction, since we might want to loosen it later.

After seeing that it was a personal breakage only, I think we only have to 
keep the safety in mind, _iff_ we are to loosen it later, not before that.

For the moment, there are no safety issues, but real advantages, IMHO.

Ciao,
Dscho