On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:35:52AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > One of the reasons that the dashed format is being removed is a real > technical one, though: git aliases. They never supported the dashed > format, since they never were real executables (that's the whole point of > an alias, after all). On the other hand, with the dashed form you can easily use shell aliases. Sure, there are differences, like that they are set per-session at most, not per-repository; but if you actually define different aliases with same names in your repositories, that seems like shooting yourself in the foot elaborately most of the time. Petr "Pasky" Baudis -- 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
