Does it make any difference adding semicolon at the beginning of an alias

[yadavan88]

Hi,
I have always created the sbt alias in this format:

addCommandAlias("ci", ";clean;compile;test")

However, I am unclear what is the purpose of the semicolon at the beginning (;clean). Does it make any difference in some particular scenarios, or it can always be ignored?

Thanks in advance

[eed3si9n]

Semilon ; is a command in sbt to concatenate other commands, and ;clean;compile;test used to be the only syntax. In sbt 1.3.0 (#4456) multi command was implemented so sbt engine itself is sort of aware of the semicolon ;, and supports clean;compile;test.

Does it make any difference in some particular scenarios, or it can always be ignored?

So starting sbt 1.3.0, you can drop the initial semicolon.