From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:55:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make '!' aliases more useful
Message-ID: <20070702145549.GB4720@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707012249590.4438@racer.site>

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:51:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> When an alias starts with an exclamation mark, the rest is interpreted
> as a shell command. However, all arguments passed to git used to be
> ignored.
> 
> Now you can have an alias like
> 
> 	$ git config alias.e '!echo'
> 
> and
> 
> 	$ git e Hello World
> 
> does what you expect it to do.

But what if you don't want the argument passed at the end of the
alias, but somewhere else?  I suspect the better answer would be to
support $* and $1, $2, $3, et. al interpolation, no?  It was on my
list of things to do when I had a spare moment, but I never got around
to it.

					- Ted