Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Well, we have a more serious issue, that is related, but has nothing to do > with aliases. > > If you set an environment variable "diff.color=always", any script will > get that behaviour, and not work the way it might expect. > > My point being that this has nothing to do with "git-diff" vs "git diff", > and everything to do with default configurations. If you don't want people > to be able to change fixed behaviour, you'd need to have a way to disable > it. That's exactly why we have told people to use plumbing in their scripts, and git-diff-tree does not look at diff.color. > Quite frankly, I think it's _easier_ to disable with "git xyzzy" than with > "git-xyzzy", but hey, not a big deal. With "git xyzzy", we could add a > generic flag like > > git - xyzzy > > to make the rule be that no configurations (_including_ aliases) are > allowed to override default behaviour, which is much harder with the > "git-xyzzy" format (since then it's invariably a per-command thing). But that would break existing scripts wouldn't it? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
