Re: [PATCH] Support for configurable git command aliases (v3)

Dear diary, on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:16:38AM CEST, I got a letter
where Petr Baudis [off-list ref] said that...

This patch adds support for configurable aliases for git commands -
"alias.WHATEVER = which ever" will kick in when you do "git WHATEVER"
and substitute WHATEVER with "which ever" (splitted to arguments at
whitespaces).

The second version does all the work in handle_aliases() which was
inspired by Johannes Schindelin's patch.

The third version does not expand aliases when called as 'git-something'
or when the $GIT_NO_ALIASES environment variable is set; that is now
done in git-sh-setup.sh. The documentation has been slightly expanded.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <redacted>

So, I chose the approach suggested by Linus, but I do not have a strong
preference and if Junio still wants, we can rather just disallow aliases
with the same name as builtins - I just think that it *might* be
practical to add some default options to the commands without relearning
your typing habits.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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