From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:37:33 GMT
Subject: Re: allowing aliases to override builtins to support default options
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903070336200.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <76718490903061430s2fbea2dfibe06282fd22b1588@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:

> 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