From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Morton Subject: Re: Allow git alias to override existing Git commands Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:28:07 +0000 Message-ID: <56430A27.2030604@game-point.net> References: <56421BD9.5060501@game-point.net> <56424DDE.2030808@game-point.net> <5642C8BA.8030003@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stefan Beller , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Sitaram Chamarty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 11 10:29:31 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwRi3-0003Fr-5Z for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:28:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751826AbbKKJ2o (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 04:28:44 -0500 Received: from mail.gooeysoftware.com ([208.100.15.213]:51720 "EHLO mail.gooeysoftware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751386AbbKKJ2m (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 04:28:42 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (82-69-83-224.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.224]) by mail.gooeysoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A962918A00F2; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 03:24:40 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <5642C8BA.8030003@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 11/11/2015 04:48, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > A lot of things in Unix do follow that "give you rope to hang yourself" > philosophy. I used to (and to *some* extent still do) think like that, > but some years of supporting normal users trying to do stuff has taught > me it's not always that simple. > > I can easily see someone blogging some cool way to do something, and a > less savvy user uses that in his gitconfig, and gets burned later > (possibly much later, enough that he does not easily make the > connection!) We're not talking about "normal users" here, that's what Google Chrome is for. We're talking about Git users using the commandline client. They ought to know what they're doing and if they don't, they're screwed anyway because there are quite a few gotchas with Git. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez)