Re: git alias for options

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Feb 17, 2017, 13:15 UTC
Message-ID: <e6b3b3fa-2993-2850-a682-c58312a8385c@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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hIpPy venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2017 09:23:

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> Git has aliases for git commands. Is there a (an inbuilt) way to alias
> options? If not, what is the reason?
> 
> Thanks,
> hippy
>

You can setup an alias for "command with options", for example:

git help s `git s' is aliased to `status -s -b -uno .'

As you see here, this can include non-option arguments such as the pathsepc '.'.

You cannot alias options independent of the command, though.

Michael