Re: allowing aliases to override builtins to support default options

Hi,

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:

Currently git does not allow aliases to override builtins. I understand 
the reasoning behind this, but I wonder if it's overly conservative.

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...)

It seems like this would be an elegant way to support default options.

What you dream about breaks a lot of scripts.

So while it might be nice for you, you would make life of others much, 
much, much harder.  Not nice at all.

Ciao,
Dscho