Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible for aliases to be effective only when issued > from an interactive shell? It is certainly true that aliases just make > no sense in a script. Probably, but on Cygwin gitk needs to use 'git foo' to invoke a command, even if 'git-foo' exists, because 'git-foo' might be a shell script and the Cygwin wish process cannot execute shell scripts. Worse it cannot pass down environment variables to git commands. So it may be a little hard to tell in the git wrapper we are being run from within gitk (or git-gui)... -- Shawn. - 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