On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 12:44 AM Tim Schumacher <timsch...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Just printing the command that the user entered is not particularly > helpful when trying to find the alias that causes the loop. > > Print the history of substituted commands to help the user find the > offending alias. Mark the entrypoint of the loop with "<==" and the > last command (which looped back to the entrypoint) with "==>".
An even simpler way to give this information is simply suggest the user tries again with GIT_TRACE=1. All alias expansion is shown there and we teach the user about GIT_TRACE. But your approach is probably more user friendly. -- Duy
