From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:45:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Advanced aliases with arguments (?)
Message-ID: <20071104004551.GA30927@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071104004020.GA30487@glandium.org>

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 01:40:20AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read on http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Aliases that
> 
>         Starting with version 1.5.3, git supports appending the
>         arguments to commands prefixed with "!", too. If you need to
>         perform a reordering, or to use an argument twice, you can use
>         this trick:
> 
>         [alias]
>                 example = !sh -c "ls $1 $0"
> 
> 
> AFAICT, it doesn't work with the 1.5.3.5 I use. Is it false advertising
> or was there some regression ?

Aaaah it does work, but you need to use single quotes, not double
quotes.

Mike