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From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 10:38:14 +0200
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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

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