Re: [PATCH] Make '!' aliases more useful

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Jul 2, 2007, 16:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20070702160810.GD4720@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707021654450.4071@racer.site>

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> > 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.
> 
> There is a point where you do not want to complicate git, but rather write 
> a script. This is such a point IMHO.

Such a point exists, I agree, but I would draw after $* and $1/$2/$3 interpolation. There is a lot more value that gets added with positional arguments support, and it makes git aliases more usable on platforms such as Windows where scripting capability is much more limited.

Regards,

					- Ted