On Mon, Oct 22 2018, Jeff King wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 09:18:21PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> We didn't support chained aliases at all before, so I think the odds
>> that people will run into this now will increase as they add "!" to
>> existing aliases, and I'd like to have git's UI friendly enough to tell
>> users what went wrong by default, and not have to resort to the likes of
>> GIT_TRACE=1 which really should be left to powerusers.
>
> It's true that non-! aliases couldn't recurse before, but couldn't "!"
> ones always do so?

Yes. I meant that maybe now it's a feature that works for that people
will start using it, and then convert some of that to !-aliases they
wouldn't otherwise have written. Just idle speculation...

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