From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5•se>
To: Ramana Kumar <ramana.kumar@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: recursive aliases
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:34:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9B3B2A.2080604@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=VDmyhUDYKc38bOZWLncZ_twQGB2n5KgbgP_tf@mail.gmail.com>
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.
> What about aliases that don't refer to themselves, but refer to other aliases?
>
Again, this isn't possible. How could you configure something like that?
> Obviously I can just call git from the shell with a ! alias, but
> wondering if there's any better way.
There isn't. The simple aliases are there to let you run certain
commands with certain default parameters as a new command. Normal
commands have no way of calling other commands (or themselves)
recursively. That's what shell-scripts are for.
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2010-09-23 6:07 recursive aliases Ramana Kumar
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2010-09-23 22:49 ` Andreas Schwab
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