Hi Duy, On Tue, 11 Oct 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Johannes Schindelin > <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, Jeff King wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 06:32:38PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > >> > >> > > If you mean ambiguity between the old "alias.X" and the new > >> > > "alias.X.*", > >> > > then yes, I think that's an unavoidable part of the transition. IMHO, > >> > > the new should take precedence over the old, and people will gradually > >> > > move from one to the other. > >> > > >> > Do we really need to treat this differently than > >> > > >> > [alias] > >> > d2u = !dos2unix > >> > d2u = C:/cygwin/bin/dos3unix.exe > >> > > >> > ? > >> > > >> > Another similar case is one d2u (could be either old syntax or new) is > >> > defined in ~/.gitconfig and the other d2u in $GIT_DIR/config. In > >> > either case, the "latest" d2u definition wins. > >> > >> Yeah, that's reasonable, too. So: > >> > >> [alias] > >> d2u = "!dos2unix" > >> > >> acts exactly as if: > >> > >> [alias "d2u"] > >> command = dos2unix > >> type = shell > >> > >> was specified at that point, which is easy to understand. > > > > It is easy to understand, and even easier to get wrong or out of sync. I > > really liked the ease of *one* `git config` call to add new aliases. > > I was about to bring this up. Although to me, "git config --global > alias.foo bar" is more convenient, but not using it is not exactly > easy to get wrong or out of sync. For adding alias.$name.* I was > thinking about "git config --global --edit", not executing "git > config" multiple times. Right, but many of my aliases get set by scripts, so your `--edit` idea won't work for me. > > Not sure that I like the need for more such calls just to add *one* alias > > (one > > config call for "shell", one for "don't cd up", etc). > > We could add git-alias if more alias types pop up (and in my opinion > git-alias is the right call, we've been abusing git-config for alias > manipulation for a long time). Maybe. It is also possible that this issue is a good indicator that we are complicating things [*1*] more than necessary... Ciao, Dscho Footnote *1*: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Gloves
