Re: Git rescue mission

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 9, 2007, 02:01 UTC
Message-ID: <eqgkj2$2nl$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070209014852.GA13207@thunk.org>

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Theodore Tso wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 05:10:23PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>>      git config alias.new "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD"
>> 
>> Would give you a new git subcommand:
>> 
>>      git new
>> 
>> which shows all of the new stuff, on all branches, but doesn't show
>> your prior commit history.
> 
> Aliases don't seem to be working for me; I'm using git 1.5.0-rc4.  Am
> I doing something wrong?
> 
> <tytso@candygram> {/usr/projects/linux/linux-2.6}  [master]
> 37% git version
> git version 1.5.0.rc4
> <tytso@candygram> {/usr/projects/linux/linux-2.6}  [master]
> 38% git config alias.new "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD"
> <tytso@candygram> {/usr/projects/linux/linux-2.6}  [master]
> 39% git new
> git: 'new' is not a git-command

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> <tytso@candygram> {/usr/projects/linux/linux-2.6}  [master]
> 40% tail .git/config 
> 
> [user]
>         name = Theodore Ts'o
>         email = tytso@mit.edu
> 
> [remote "iwlwifi"]
>         url = http://bughost.org/repos/iwlwifi.git/
>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/iwlwifi/*
> [alias]
>         new = gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD
>

Actually I think you can only alias git commands. For example "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD" makes "git last" call "git cat-file commit HEAD".

So "alias.new = gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD" would mean that "git new" invokes "git gitk ..." not "gitk ...". Do you see the problem.

But error message is a bit strange...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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