Re: git alias for options

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On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:23 AM, hIpPy <hippy2981@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Git has aliases for git commands. Is there a (an inbuilt) way to alias
> options? If not, what is the reason?

This has long been on my  wishlist, because there's a lot of
copy/pasted logic all over Git to make git foo --whatever aliased to
foo.whatever in the config, but only for some options.

It should ideally be part of something every option just supports, via
the getopts struct.

However, it can't allow you to modify whatever option you want,
because some things like git-commit-tree should not be customized
based on config, it would break things that rely on the plumbing
commands.

So it would have to be a whitelist for each option we allow to be
configured like this via the getopts struct.

Also there are surely other edge cases, like maybe the config option
now doesn't 1=1 map to the name for the option in some cases, or the
flag should be config-able but is has no long form (which we'd like
for the config), then we'd want to add that etc.



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