Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 1, 2007, 12:12 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707011301540.4438@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl8894tc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Your patch _closes the door_ for us to implement overriding aliases 
> later if we wanted to; we would need to go back to the scripts and say 
> "git --no-alias xyzzy" again.

No, it does not.

Carlos had a cute idea on IRC, but was too shy to mention it here. There is a central place for Git's shell script, git-sh-setup. Defining an environment variable there, GIT_NO_ALIAS, and honouring that in the Git wrapper. Something similar is possible in Git.pm for perl scripts.

Note: I am opposed to overriding default parameters via alias. I am only 
stating that it is still possible.

I am in favour of Linus' patch. Here's why: quite some times, I have been asked (at a very late stage) "What still confuses me: what is the difference between git-xyz and git xyz?" It _is_ confusing for beginners, even if it is easy to explain.

Ciao, Dscho