From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:47:35 GMT
Subject: Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)
Message-ID: <7vzlso3kjc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <76718490803231854u6ee76437h5acf37b0b602f3b1@mail.gmail.com>

"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 '-'?