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From: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
To: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 09:24:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150529132453.GA1308@pug.qqx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zj4n4w3t.fsf@gmail.com>

At 10:38 +0200 29 May 2015, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>>  * You can help yourself with something like this, I suppose:
>>
>>    [alias]
>> 	git = "!sh -c 'exec git \"$@\"' -"
>>
>>    but I personally feel that it is too ugly to live as part of our
>>    official suggestion, so please do not send a patch to add it as
>>    a built-in alias ;-).
>
>So I thought I was clever, but this didn't work:

I've done the same as the original poster a few times myself, so awhile 
ago I added the following to my .gitconfig file:

[alias]
    git         = "!f() { git $@; }; f"

And this has worked for me.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-29 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-28  0:28 Redirect "git" subcommand to itself? Stefan Beller
2015-05-28  1:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28  5:22   ` Jeff King
2015-05-29  8:38   ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-05-29 13:24     ` Aaron Schrab [this message]
2015-05-29 15:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-29 16:00       ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-29 16:41       ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-05-29 16:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28 10:36 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2015-05-28 13:11 ` Matthieu Moy

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