Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: May 9, 2011, 04:36 UTC
Message-ID: <buozkmw5w3j.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhb986chl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Do you or do you not run "apt-get install git-superadd"?
>
> One possible answer may be to run "apt-get install git-superadd", and then
> the users who want "git add" to behave in a new way to opt-in to use the
> "plug-in".  I think that is what Jon is getting at.

If aliases could override built-in command names, it'd be easy enough ("alias add=superadd") ... [with some feature to allow suppressing the alias to prevent recursion, e.g. an environment variable or something.]

-Miles

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