I've been running the following aliases for a long time now: alias g='git' # in bash % cat ~/.gitconfig | grep clone cl = clone This appears to still be calling the right UI command: % g cl You must specify a repository to clone. ... But when I try to actually clone a repository: % ls rdbi ls: rdbi: No such file or directory % g cl http://github.com/erikh/rdbi.git fatal: cannot set work tree after initialization * ls -la rdbi/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 raggi staff 68 26 May 09:46 . drwxr-xr-x 251 raggi staff 8534 26 May 09:46 .. So then, I try it with 'clone' instead of 'cl', and it works (after removing the dead initialized repo in ./rdbi): * rm -rf rdbi/ % g clone http://github.com/erikh/rdbi.git Initialized empty Git repository in ... I could look into this later on when I'm not at $work, but as I have no knowledge of the UI internals, it'd be great if someone in the know could track this down. Thanks in advance, James-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html