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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Allow git alias to override existing Git commands
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:15:14 +0530
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On 11/11/15 15:42, Jeremy Morton wrote:
> On 11/11/2015 09:51, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>> I can only repeat what I said before: it's not all black and white.
>>
>> Reducing the opportunity to make mistakes is useful for everyone, even
>> expetrs.  Especially stuff that you may have setup aeons ago and hits
>> you only aeons later when something (supposedly unrelated) somewhere
>> else changes and you didn't remember and you tear your hair out.
> 
> Not when it reduces useful functionality for experts, it's not.

Speaking of... did you try the script I sent in an earlier mail?

Putting it in /usr/local/bin (on Fedora.  YMMV) seems to work fine,
since that appears earlier than /bin where the real git lives.