Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 23, 2008, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20080323194514.GA23492@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080323193842.GA23227@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:38:42PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

>     atag = !sh -c 'git tag -a -m "$0" "$0"'
> 
> As an aside, this should be "$1" but it looks like we don't pass the
> shell a proper argv[0].

Hmm, I take it back. Git is doing the right thing, but it is a quirk of the shell that it counts the first argument as the "name of the script" even though the script actually comes from "-c".

  $ sh -c 'echo $0' foo
  foo
  $ echo 'echo $0' | sh
  sh

-Peff