On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:32:46AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > You are making things more consistent for people who already define > > those aliases in the same way (they are available everywhere, even if > > they have not moved their config to a new installation), but less so for > > people who define them differently. Rather than get an obvious: > > > > git: 'co' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. > > > > the result will be subtly different (especially so in the case of > > "commit" versus "commit -a"). > > Before: > > # machine A: git ci > git: 'ca' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. > > # machine B: git ci > commits > > After: > > # machine A: git ci > no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") > > # machine B: git ci > commits That is the output if there are no files to commit. What about while resolving a merge, or after using "git add" on a path? In that case we create a commit, but it is subtly different than what the user intended. I think for the merge case, it is probably OK, as the "surprise" should always go in the safe direction (user expects "commit -a", gets "commit", and commit balks). But the other omits intended files from the commit. -Peff -- 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