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<h1>Using aliases<a class="headerlink" href="#using-aliases" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="what-are-aliases">
<h2>What are aliases?<a class="headerlink" href="#what-are-aliases" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Aliases are an easy way to create shortcuts for commonly-typed commands, or to set
defaults for commands.</p>
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<div class="section" id="defining-aliases">
<h2>Defining aliases<a class="headerlink" href="#defining-aliases" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Command aliases can be defined in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[ALIASES]</span></tt> section of your
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bazaar.conf</span></tt> file. Aliases start with the alias name, then an
equal sign, then a command fragment. Here’s an example ALIASES section:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>[ALIASES]
recentlog=log -r-3..-1
ll=log --line -r-10..-1
commit=commit --strict
diff=diff --diff-options -p
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<p>Here are the explanations of the examples above:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li>The first alias makes a new <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">recentlog</span></tt> command that shows the logs for the
last three revisions</li>
<li>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ll</span></tt> alias shows the last 10 log entries in line format.</li>
<li>the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">commit</span></tt> alias sets the default for commit to refuse to commit if new
files in the tree are not recognized.</li>
<li>the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">diff</span></tt> alias adds the coveted -p option to diff</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="using-the-aliases">
<h2>Using the aliases<a class="headerlink" href="#using-the-aliases" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The aliases defined above would be used like so:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>% bzr recentlog
% bzr ll
% bzr commit
% bzr diff
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<div class="section" id="rules-for-aliases">
<h2>Rules for aliases<a class="headerlink" href="#rules-for-aliases" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li>You can override a portion of the options given in an alias by
specifying the new part on the command-line. For example, if
you run <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lastlog</span> <span class="pre">-r-5..</span></tt>, you will only get five line-based log
entries instead of 10. Note that all boolean options have an
implicit inverse, so you can override the commit alias with
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">commit</span> <span class="pre">--no-strict</span></tt>.</li>
<li>Aliases can override the standard behaviour of existing commands by giving
an alias name that is the same as the original command. For example, default
commit is changed with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">commit=commit</span> <span class="pre">--strict</span></tt>.</li>
<li>Aliases cannot refer to other aliases. In other words making a
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lastlog</span></tt> alias and referring to it with a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ll</span></tt> alias will not work.
This includes aliases that override standard commands.</li>
<li>Giving the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--no-aliases</span></tt> option to the bzr command will tell it to ignore aliases
for that run. For example, running <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">--no-aliases</span> <span class="pre">commit</span></tt> will perform a
standard commit instead, not do a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">commit</span> <span class="pre">--strict</span></tt>.</li>
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