On Mon, Oct 22 2018, Jeff King wrote: > 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? Yes. I meant that maybe now it's a feature that works for that people will start using it, and then convert some of that to !-aliases they wouldn't otherwise have written. Just idle speculation...
