RFE: make stg.alias config more like git.alias

[larsks]

For whatever reason, my fingers really want to type stg list rather than stg series. I thought maybe I could make my fingers happy like this:

git config stg.alias.list series

But that doesn't work, because stg assumes that aliases point to shell commands. It would be nice if alias processing worked more like it does for git.alias, so that the above example would work and for existing aliases (like stg mv) would be written like:

git config stg.alias.mv '!git mv'

[NonLogicalDev]

Hey @larsks, so long as you don't care about shell interpolation what you want to do is quite simple:

[stgit.alias]
  list = stg series

And even in case you do want something more fancy, there are still workarounds:

[stgit.alias]
  gn     = git stg-gn
  gp     = git stg-gp
[alias]
  stg-gn = !stg goto $(stg next)
  stg-gp = !stg goto $(stg prev)

But I would really love to see shell interpolation in the stg.aliases to avoid having to resort to hacks like these.

[larsks]

Thanks for the pointer! Not quite like git aliasing, which is why it's non obvious, but works for me.