From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:01:36 GMT
Subject: Re: why can't one alias `git stash`?
Message-ID: <xmqqh5y4gm4v.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <d8b279098a41949eef06f26d3f09c3950486380b.camel@scientia.org>

Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org> writes:

> As mentioned in the other thread, IMO it sounds rather brittle if
> aliases are considered at all in scripting.

As a program, how would you tell when you are run by a script?

If you are a shell, you go into "interactive" mode when you are
taking your command stream from a tty, and otherwise assume you are
not interactive.  The same trick would not work at all for programs
started by a shell, would it?

Asking script writers to pass "--no-alias" option to all of their
"git" invocation will probably not be a viable way forward, either.