alias not honored

[Steve Fink]

For the record, the most direct answer to this question would have been to
use the [defaults] section instead of using an alias:

    [defaults]
    status = --quiet


On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 3:23 AM Pascal <patatetom at gmail.com> wrote:

> I added these aliases in ./.hg/hgrc and there was indeed
> [ui]
> verbose = True
> in my ~/.hgrc !
> it works much better now without this True ;-)
> thanks
>
> Le jeu. 4 mars 2021 à 11:55, Sushil Khanchi <sushilkhanchi97 at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> 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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