From: Petter Urkedal <urkedal@nbi.dk>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:36:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reserve a slot for argv[0] in default_arg.
Message-ID: <20091005063649.GA25040@eideticdew.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4oqen6my.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 2009-10-04, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> It is a command specific aliasing mechanism; not even I use the feature
> these days, since "alias.*" is much easier to use.  But there is no strong
> need to remove it either; it is not too much hassle to keep it for people
> who do use it.  Perhaps deprecate it and remove it in the long run?

I didn't know about alias.*.  Excellent.  I'll be using that.
 
> > Correct. Junio sent a patch to fix this problem in June[1]. I guess he
> > must have dropped his own patch, or he wasn't satisfied with how parse
> > options clobbers things.
> >
> > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/121142
> 
> I had it kept still in my Inbox; thanks for noticing.  Petter's patch does
> essentially the same thing, but the old patch had a better log message
> that described where in the history the fix should apply, so I'd probably
> use that with your test squashed in.

The code is slightly nicer to, I think, but you can probably drop "+ 20"
in the grow-case now.