hub alias hides git-alias

Created on 26 Mar 2012 · 9Comments · Source: github/hub

hub alias does not seem to take --noop into account, so it hides git-alias from https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras.

Since it's a hub-specific command, and it's only useful at setup time, I propose to either:

make it aware of --noop
hide it as an option rather than a command, i.e. hub [--alias|--shell-alias] [SHELL]
make it work only if $0 is explicitly hub

bug ¯\_(ツ)¯

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cdlm

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For any command if you want to skip hub altogether from your shell, just do command git .... E.g. command git alias.

mislav on 17 Jul 2016

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It took me a while to figure out what you're saying. Basically, hub alias shadows the other git-alias commands that may exist on the system (in this case, one is provided by git-extras), right?

I'm in favor of your proposal 3. However, this behavior might be surprising to some because in every other case, calling hub <something> should be identical to git <something> (when hub is aliased as git). I need to think about it.

Thanks for the heads-up!

mislav on 26 Mar 2012

Sorry if I wasn't clear; you understood me correctly.

cdlm on 26 Mar 2012

Could something like hub alias-command work just as well, and be a bit more clear?

Or something similar...

trobrock on 3 Apr 2012

First of all, --noop doesn't forward all commands to git. It just shows what would be executed by hub, but doesn't execute it.

I like the idea of making hub alias only work if the command was invoked as hub and not git. However, I don't know how to do this technically; the value of $0 is hub for me regardless whether I invoked it through a git alias or not.

Next option is to make it a custom flag such as hub --alias. However this breaks backwards compatibility with people who already embedded eval "$(hub alias -s)" is a shell.

mislav on 8 May 2012

@cdlm @mislav Does hub make git-extras aliases useless if I've git aliased to hub? Can't I use any of the awesome git-extras aliases mentioned here https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md ?

abhisekp on 9 Oct 2015

You can use all of the git-extras command except for git alias and git fork from that repo, because hub alias and hub fork will take precedence.

mislav on 9 Oct 2015

You can use git-alias and git-fork instead, or bypass the git alias with \ (backslash): \git alias. I'm not a go expert, but I've been messing around and no matter how I run the go executable os.Args[0] always gives the true name of the executable, which is hub, as @mislav said.

In the case of hub alias perhaps you can use the fact that -s is passed to run hub alias, otherwise print a deprecation notice or forward over to the git command.