From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:38:55 GMT
Subject: Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)
Message-ID: <20080323193855.GA22535@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803231518340.4353@racer.site>

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:19:01PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > > atag = !git tag -a -m "$1"
> 
> Why so complicated?
> 
> 	atag = tag -a -m
> 
> should work already.

The problem is that he needs to duplicate the final argument. I.e., "git
atag foo" becomes "git atag -a -m foo foo".

-Peff