On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > What you dream about breaks a lot of scripts. I said I understood the implications. > So while it might be nice for you, you would make life of others much, > much, much harder. Not nice at all. This is not something I am dreaming about, and I'm only interested to the extent that it improves git w/o hindering existing users. I'm certainly not aiming to be not nice to anyone! For example, what if: 1. The aliases applied only to porcelain commands, not to plumbing. 2. The aliases worked only if stdout was a terminal, using the same method that git uses for detecting when it is okay to start a pager. 3. git took --alias-builtins and --no-alias-builtins just like it takes --paginate and --no-pager to override (2). j. -- 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