Hi, On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Jay Soffian wrote: > Currently git does not allow aliases to override builtins. I understand > the reasoning behind this, but I wonder if it's overly conservative. > > Most shells support overriding commands with aliases, and I'm not sure > why git needs to be more conservative than the shell. (Although, I will > say, I hate when vendors alias rm to "rm -i", etc...) > > It seems like this would be an elegant way to support default options. What you dream about breaks a lot of scripts. So while it might be nice for you, you would make life of others much, much, much harder. Not nice at all. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
