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Re: allowing aliases to override builtins to support default options

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 7, 2009, 02:37 UTC
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Hi,
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:
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> Currently git does not allow aliases to override builtins. I understand 
> the reasoning behind this, but I wonder if it's overly conservative.
> 
> Most shells support overriding commands with aliases, and I'm not sure 
> why git needs to be more conservative than the shell. (Although, I will 
> say, I hate when vendors alias rm to "rm -i", etc...)
> 
> It seems like this would be an elegant way to support default options.
What you dream about breaks a lot of scripts.

So while it might be nice for you, you would make life of others much, much, much harder. Not nice at all.

Ciao, Dscho

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  2. Sverre RabbelierMar 6, 2009
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