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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Git rescue mission
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:58:39 -0500
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Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 05:10:23PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > 	git config alias.new "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD"
> > 
> > Would give you a new git subcommand:
> > 
> > 	git new
> > 
> > which shows all of the new stuff, on all branches, but doesn't show
> > your prior commit history.
> 
> Aliases don't seem to be working for me; I'm using git 1.5.0-rc4.  Am
> I doing something wrong?

Its not you.  The problem is 'gitk' is not an internal command,
nor is there a 'git-gitk'.  So we cannot execute it.  Instead we
are giving back a horrible error message.

Symlink git-gitk to gitk and it works.

Sorry about giving false hopes.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.