On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:34:15PM -0800, hIpPy wrote: > I think the conversation has drifted away from what I am asking / hoping for. Yeah, the usual answer to "can we have custom options" is "use a custom alias". But I agree they are not quite the same thing. > Say I want an alias for option --name-status as -s, so I can type: > $ git log -s > > But there is already a -s option and that wins so the built-in option > alias wins. > > However, I think I should be able alias it as --ns. > $ git log --ns To be honest, I am not that enthused about the idea, but I don't have an real objection beyond "meh, that looks like an unnecessary complication". If anybody wants to pursue it, the simplest way would probably be to teach parse-options to take a callback for an unknown option, which could then do a config lookup to transmute the argument into another option-name. Though many of the options (notably the revision-walker and diff ones) are not handled by parse-options. So that might present a challenge. -Peff