Ramana KumarAre recursive aliases in any way allowed? What about aliases that don't refer to themselves, but refer to other aliases?
Obviously I can just call git from the shell with a ! alias, but wondering if there's any better way.
Ramana Kumar
Andreas EricssonRe: recursive aliases
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.
> What about aliases that don't refer to themselves, but refer to other aliases? >
Again, this isn't possible. How could you configure something like that?
> Obviously I can just call git from the shell with a ! alias, but > wondering if there's any better way.
There isn't. The simple aliases are there to let you run certain commands with certain default parameters as a new command. Normal commands have no way of calling other commands (or themselves) recursively. That's what shell-scripts are for.
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Andreas SchwabRe: recursive aliases
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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