From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:56:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] help: respect aliases
Message-ID: <76718490802260656s459e9241ie2a2d6b255c77fa4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802261222570.17164@racer.site>

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>  On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Jay Soffian wrote:
>
>  > This too would be less ugly as a built-in:
>  >
>  >  [elided so as not to burn anyone's eyes out again :-) -- jay]
>
>  Wow.  This would look less ugly as an alias like this, too:
>
>  alias = "!sh -c 'case $# in \
>         0) git config --get-regexp \"^alias\\.\" | sed \"s/^alias\\.//\";; \
>         *) git config \"alias.$0\" ;; \
>         esac'"
>
>  which incidentally fixes a bug in your alias: you ignore $0 which is the
>  first parameter when using the sh -c '' idiom.

Test mine. Test yours. See which works. :-)

At least on my system, I had to use:

  sh -c '...' -

And then refer to $1.

>  Of course, you can change the sed call to your liking...

Most of the ugliness in mine is that I crammed the whitespace down and
that I'm using a quite involved pipeline to reformat all my aliases so
they fit into my terminal window.

But the --get-regexp is a good tip.

j.