Daniel Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > There's been talk of a DEFAULTREPO or allowing substitutions and aliases
> > in the config file, or something
> > 
> > 
> 
> Of course, the question always raised when you try to do this is "why is
> this better than just using shell variables"
> 
> if you can give me a good answer to take back to [EMAIL PROTECTED], i'm
> happy to

A project can define aliases in one place for all the developers,
instead of checking in some initialization mechanism that has to work
for all the shell variants out there.

Not a great answer, but it's something.

Ian

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