From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:37:30 GMT
Subject: Re: allowing aliases to override builtins to support default options
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0903061437t2df5620bn58c6c087214f994b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76718490903061430s2fbea2dfibe06282fd22b1588@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 23:30, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...)

Hmmm, maybe we could require marking such an alias somehow, to signify
that you're aware that you're overriding a builtin? Also, what would
we do the alias 'foo' calling 'git foo'? Does it call the original
command, or itself?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier