Re: allowing aliases to override builtins to support default options

Heya,

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 23:30, Jay Soffian [off-list ref] wrote:

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...)

Hmmm, maybe we could require marking such an alias somehow, to signify
that you're aware that you're overriding a builtin? Also, what would
we do the alias 'foo' calling 'git foo'? Does it call the original
command, or itself?

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier