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

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 24, 2008, 01:54 UTC
Message-ID: <76718490803231854u6ee76437h5acf37b0b602f3b1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080323194514.GA23492@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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>  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

All my shell aliases therefor look like:

h          = "!sh -c 'git alias \"$1\" || git help \"$1\"' -"

(Notice the trailing '-'.)

j.