Thread (2 messages) flat view 2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: allowing aliases to override builtins to support default options

From: Jay Soffian <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:20

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
Because sane shells do not expand aliases when used in a script, and gives
a handy way to defeat the alias even from the command line.

   $ alias ls='ls -aF'
   $ echo ls >script
   $ chmod +x script

and compare:

   $ ./script
   $ ls
   $ /bin/ls
Understood. And if git could do the same, still no?

j.
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