From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:01:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Weird behavior of shell variables in git aliases
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Lasse Makholm <lasse.makholm@gmail.com> writes:

> Whlie we're at it, is "sh -c ... -" and "sh -c ... --" equally
> portable, I wonder?

I suspect anything would work, but it is customary to pass the dummy $0 by
writing "-" there.  People who breathe shells would be able to recognize
the idiom more easily if you stick to that well-known form.