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. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- 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