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Re: recursive aliases

From
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Sep 23, 2010, 22:49 UTC
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> On 09/23/2010 08:07 AM, Ramana Kumar wrote:
>> Are recursive aliases in any way allowed?
>
> They're not just not allowed; they're not even possible.

$ git config alias.foo foo $ git foo fatal: recursive alias: foo

:-)
Andreas.
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