Aliases ignored when shortcuts are used

[Gioele Barabucci]

Aliases to standards commands like "commit" are ignored when the respective shortcuts ("co" in this case) are used.

In my aliases I have

  checkout = checkout --lightweight

When I use "bzr co" the alias for "checkout" is ignored so the --lightweight option is not applied.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

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Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Aliases to standards commands like "commit" are ignored when the
> respective shortcuts ("co" in this case) are used.
>
> In my aliases I have
>
> checkout = checkout --lightweight
>
> When I use "bzr co" the alias for "checkout" is ignored so the
> --lightweight option is not applied.
>
> ** Affects: bzr
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

'co' is just another alias for 'checkout'. Conceptually it is the same
as doing:

co = checkout

in your config.

So really this is 'aliases don't use other aliases'. I'm not really sure
how to respond. It would probably be nice, but I don't see it happening
in the immediate future.

In the meantime, you can just do:

 co = checkout --lightweight

And things should work for you.

John
=:->

 importance wishlist
 status confirmed
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[Aaron Bentley (abentley)]

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John A Meinel wrote:
> So really this is 'aliases don't use other aliases'. I'm not really sure
> how to respond. It would probably be nice, but I don't see it happening
> in the immediate future.

I actually find it quite useful that I can use an alternative name to
get the default behaviour.

Aaron
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[Aaron Bentley (abentley)]

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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> I actually find it quite useful that I can use an alternative name to
> get the default behaviour.

For example, I think that "bzr remove" should be the inverse of "bzr
add", and not delete files, so I have "bzr remove" aliased to "bzr
remove --keep" and not "bzr rm".

Aaron
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