Re: git alias for options

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:34:15PM -0800, hIpPy wrote:

> I think the conversation has drifted away from what I am asking / hoping for.

Yeah, the usual answer to "can we have custom options" is "use a custom
alias". But I agree they are not quite the same thing.

> Say I want an alias for option --name-status as -s, so I can type:
> $ git log -s
> 
> But there is already a -s option and that wins so the built-in option
> alias wins.
> 
> However, I think I should be able alias it as --ns.
> $ git log --ns

To be honest, I am not that enthused about the idea, but I don't have an
real objection beyond "meh, that looks like an unnecessary
complication".

If anybody wants to pursue it, the simplest way would probably be to
teach parse-options to take a callback for an unknown option, which
could then do a config lookup to transmute the argument into another
option-name.

Though many of the options (notably the revision-walker and diff ones)
are not handled by parse-options. So that might present a challenge.

-Peff