alias not honored

[Sushil Khanchi]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 4:15 PM Pascal <patatetom at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi everybody,
>
> I want the status (st) command to be in quiet mode by default : how do I
> do it ?
> I tried to add the following entries in the [alias] section of my
> configuration file :
> status = status --quiet
>

FWIW, I tried the first one `status = status --quiet` and it worked fine.
Maybe, local config overriding it somehow (if you are making changes to
global config).

> toto = status --quiet
> status = !$HG status --quiet
> the first alias doesn't work as expected : the status is displayed, but
> the files untracked and ignored remain displayed.
> the second alias is well taken into account, but behaves like the first
> one and the files untracked and ignored are also displayed.
> *the third alias was a **very, very, very, very bad idea**, especially as
> root.*
> thank you in advance for your help.
> regards, lacsaP.
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