On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:44:50AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Yeah, that's reasonable, too. So: > > > > [alias] > > d2u = "!dos2unix" > > > > acts exactly as if: > > > > [alias "d2u"] > > command = dos2unix > > type = shell > > > > was specified at that point, which is easy to understand. > > It is easy to understand, and even easier to get wrong or out of sync. I > really liked the ease of *one* `git config` call to add new aliases. Not > sure that I like the need for more such calls just to add *one* alias (one > config call for "shell", one for "don't cd up", etc). Could we simply support alias.d2u indefinitely, and you could use whichever format you felt like (the shorter, more limited one if you wanted, or the more verbose but flexible one)? -Peff