From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why can't one alias `git stash`?
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:01:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh5y4gm4v.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8b279098a41949eef06f26d3f09c3950486380b.camel@scientia.org> (Christoph Anton Mitterer's message of "Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:11:20 +0200")
Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org> writes:
> As mentioned in the other thread, IMO it sounds rather brittle if
> aliases are considered at all in scripting.
As a program, how would you tell when you are run by a script?
If you are a shell, you go into "interactive" mode when you are
taking your command stream from a tty, and otherwise assume you are
not interactive. The same trick would not work at all for programs
started by a shell, would it?
Asking script writers to pass "--no-alias" option to all of their
"git" invocation will probably not be a viable way forward, either.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-19 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-15 0:33 why can't one alias `git stash`? Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-08-15 1:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-15 2:02 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-08-15 4:04 ` Elijah Newren
2025-08-15 11:22 ` rsbecker
2025-08-16 2:03 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-08-15 15:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-16 2:11 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-08-16 9:15 ` Matthias Aßhauer
2025-08-19 1:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-08-19 21:38 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-08-16 1:35 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
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