Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Currently git does not allow aliases to override builtins. I
> understand the reasoning behind this, but I wonder if it's overly
> conservative.
It is not.
> Most shells support overriding commands with aliases, and I'm not sure
> why git needs to be more conservative than the shell.
Because sane shells do not expand aliases when used in a script, and gives
a handy way to defeat the alias even from the command line.
$ alias ls='ls -aF'
$ echo ls >script
$ chmod +x script
and compare:
$ ./script
$ ls
$ /bin/ls
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