From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:22:29 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <7v4przfpir.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200612140959.19209.andyparkins@gmail.com> <7v7iwu93rv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200612141136.59041.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:22:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-X-Sender: gene099@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GvMO2-0000y8-W5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:22:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030367AbWLOXWd (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:22:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030379AbWLOXWd (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:22:33 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:57357 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030367AbWLOXWc (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:22:32 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2006 23:22:30 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO dumbo2) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp039) with SMTP; 16 Dec 2006 00:22:30 +0100 To: Nicolas Pitre Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > It would be nice to have some generic place in git config to specify > > default options to git commands (at least for interactive shell). It > > cannot be done using aliases. Perhaps defaults. config variable? > > I would say the alias facility has to be fixed then. > > In bash you can alias "ls" to "ls -l" and it just works. So, why not use bash aliases? Frankly, what git aliases try to achieve is a little bit different from bash aliases. Bash knows exactly when a command is interactive, and has a clear advantage there. Git _cannot_ know. Ciao, Dscho