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by salgernon 3187 days ago
erm, "git git foo"; in most shells can be fixed with "!*" as your next command. Repeat until lameness subsides.

Seriously though, I don't understand why people want to hide obvious errors like this - I'd much rather have the tool fail to execute than potentially perform some action I wasn't expecting.

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Exactly. If anything I appreciate when errors are _highlighted_ a la `sl` (Steam locomotive) for `ls` or the `gti` for `git` that has a golf gti run across the screen