On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:03:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Sure, but regular aliases already do that. The point of making it a > > "builtin" alias is that we can depend on it being there. But who is > > depending? > > Nobody is depending. > > And I think the reason nobody depends on it is because there is no > compelling reason to. Perhaps the behaviour is not useful enough. It > surely is the case for "bisect view". Right, which leads to my (perhaps subtle) point that the builtin alias hack is just what you said elsewhere: a cute hack. IOW, I am slightly NAKing inclusion of it in master (OTOH, I really don't see what it could _hurt_, so maybe somebody could find a use for it that we didn't think of). -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
