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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] README and ChangeLog files
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:01:13 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:35:52AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> One of the reasons that the dashed format is being removed is a real 
> technical one, though: git aliases. They never supported the dashed 
> format, since they never were real executables (that's the whole point of 
> an alias, after all).

On the other hand, with the dashed form you can easily use shell
aliases. Sure, there are differences, like that they are set per-session
at most, not per-repository; but if you actually define different
aliases with same names in your repositories, that seems like shooting
yourself in the foot elaborately most of the time.

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis