On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:28:50PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > @@ -162,6 +169,8 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv) > > > > alias_command = (*argv)[0]; > > git_config(git_alias_config); > > + if (!alias_string) > > + alias_string = builtin_alias(alias_command); > > if (alias_string) { > > if (alias_string[0] == '!') { > > if (*argcp > 1) { > > Didn't you mean to put this _before_ the git_config() call? As you wrote > it, the "soft" alias overrides the user-specified one. No. The "if (!alias_string)" means we only do the lookup if no user alias was found. Try it. -Peff - 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