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From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 10:38:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj4n4w3t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqoal5ii21.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 27 May 2015 18:53:26 -0700")

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:

% ln -s /usr/bin/git ~/bin/git-git  
% git git
fatal: cannot handle git as a builtin

-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-29  8:36 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 [this message]
2015-05-29 13:24     ` Aaron Schrab
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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