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To: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
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Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:

>
>   Then again, as pointed out on IRC you might get very confused as well
> if you do git log | less. Besides, this is not going to help you with
> aliases like commit = commit -a.
>
>   So, some other possibilities are to:
>
>   (i) Test stdin. Even in scripts, stdin is frequently terminal, but you
> might add </dev/null after each git invocation and get a serious case of
> RSI.
>
>   (ii) Add a --no-alias git argument. This way lies madness, too.
>
>   (iii) Check a $GIT_NO_ALIAS environment variable. This might work
> best, after all. Opinions? Or some other clever idea?

Perhaps the simplest:

    (iv) Refuse/ignore an alias that hides existing command, and
         train users to write portable scripts by not using
         aliases.  E.g. "alias.log = log --pretty=raw" is
         ignored, and you would do "alias.l = log --pretty=raw"
         instead.