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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: recursive aliases
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> On 09/23/2010 08:07 AM, Ramana Kumar wrote:
>> Are recursive aliases in any way allowed?
>
> They're not just not allowed; they're not even possible.

$ git config alias.foo foo
$ git foo
fatal: recursive alias: foo

:-)

Andreas.

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