From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:15:49 GMT
Subject: Re: git alias for options
Message-ID: <e6b3b3fa-2993-2850-a682-c58312a8385c@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAM_JFCz+9mxp37BTT7XPJ0fMd41DdbAxnvQF7id9msH+SDe6_Q@mail.gmail.com>

hIpPy venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2017 09:23:
> 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