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

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 24, 2008, 14:54 UTC
Message-ID: <76718490803240754g161998bereb5bf3a22eb8ca76@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzlso3kjc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > All my shell aliases therefor look like:
>  >
>  > h          = "!sh -c 'git alias \"$1\" || git help \"$1\"' -"
>  >
>  > (Notice the trailing '-'.)
>
>  Just for my curiosity, why aren't they
>
>  > h          = "!sh -c 'git alias \"$0\" || git help \"$0\"'"
>
>  without trailing '-'?

Lost to the mists of time. But I think for consistency with other aliases where I was checking $#. Maybe.

j.