Re: [PATCH] Make '!' aliases more useful

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 3, 2007, 01:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707030220460.4071@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070703011429.GB5322@thunk.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:11:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > Such a point exists, I agree, but I would draw after $* and $1/$2/$3
> > > interpolation.  There is a lot more value that gets added with
> > > positional arguments support, and it makes git aliases more usable on
> > > platforms such as Windows where scripting capability is much more
> > > limited.
> > 
> > That actually sounds sensible, but you could alias
> > 
> > 	!sh -c 'command $2 $1 $3'
> > 
> > to reorder the parameters, couldn't you?
> 
> Um, how would that work on the Windows platform?
> 
> (I'm assuming here that we are trying to support Windows better, since
> there are projects such as Mozilla, and MySQL that care very much
> about first class Windows support.  We could say this isn't important
> enough, and that would be fine; but I wanted to at least raise the
> question.)

Windows support for those people unwilling to use cygwin amounts to anything, but a command line interface. Since aliases are _bound_ to the command line, I do not really get your point here.

In my view of things, for Windows support it is first of all important to get rid of the dependency on bash in the core parts. Then we should continue on the work Han-Wen did with his gub, and produce a proper Windows-clicky-style installer which installs git-gui with a proper Windows Start Menu item. But of course, then we should brace ourselves for a lot of clueless^Winterested users.

Ciao, Dscho