From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 23:07:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Default options
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705100106250.4167@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <56b7f5510705091515l7c7090b9rd5599e8746642ef9@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Dana How wrote:

> I notice git supports "alias.*" config variables.
> Would it be useful to also support "options.*" variables?

I would not do it, for the same reason we do not allow to override 
builtins via aliases: it breaks scripts.

Ciao,
Dscho