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Using aliases for Bazaar commands
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Command aliases are an easy way to customize the behaviour of Bazaar. Aliases
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are an easy way to create shortcuts for commonly-typed commands, or to set
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Command aliases can be defined in the **[ALIASES]** section of your
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**.bazaar/bazaar.conf** file. Aliases start with the alias name, then an
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equal sign, then a command fragment. Here's an example ALIASES section:
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recentlog=log -r-3..-1
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ll=log --line -r-10..-1
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commit=commit --strict
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diff=diff --diff-options -p
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Explanation of examples
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* The first alias makes a new 'recentlog' command that shows the logs for the
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* The **ll** alias shows the last 10 log entries in line format.
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* the **commit** alias sets the default for commit to refuse to commit if new
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files in the tree are not recognized.
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* the **diff** alias adds the coveted -p option to diff
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* You can override parts of the options given in an alias by overriding it.
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For example, if you run **lastlog -r-5..**, you will only get five
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line-based log entries instead of 10.
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* Aliases can override the standard behaviour of existing commands by giving
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an alias name that is thesame as the orignal command. For example, default
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commit is changed with **commit=commit --strict**.
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* Aliases can not refer to other aliases. In other words making a
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**lastlog** alias and referring to it with a **ll** alias will not work.
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This includes aliases that override standard commands
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* Giving the **--no-aliases** to the bzr command will tell it to ignore aliases
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for that run. For example, running **bzr --no-aliases commit** will perform a
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standard commit instead not do a **commit --strict**.