On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 09:18:21PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > We didn't support chained aliases at all before, so I think the odds > that people will run into this now will increase as they add "!" to > existing aliases, and I'd like to have git's UI friendly enough to tell > users what went wrong by default, and not have to resort to the likes of > GIT_TRACE=1 which really should be left to powerusers. It's true that non-! aliases couldn't recurse before, but couldn't "!" ones always do so? -Peff