Re: [PATCH 3/3] help: respect aliases

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 26, 2008, 12:43 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802261222570.17164@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <76718490802241810m5f473156nc350eea07016e8f9@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Jay Soffian wrote:

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> This too would be less ugly as a built-in:
> 
>     alias      = "! sh -c 'if test -z \"$1\"; then git config --list \
>                   | expand \
>                   | sed \"/^alias\\./!d; s/^alias\\.//; s/=/ /; s/  */ /g\" \
>                   | sort | while read n v; do \
>                   printf \"%-16s\" \"$n\"; echo \"$v\" | gnused \
>                   \"s/\\(.\\{68\\}\\) /\\1\\n\t\t/g\" | expand; \
>                   done; else git config \"alias.$1\"; fi' -"

Wow.  This would look less ugly as an alias like this, too:

alias = "!sh -c 'case $# in \
        0) git config --get-regexp \"^alias\\.\" | sed \"s/^alias\\.//\";; \
        *) git config \"alias.$0\" ;; \
        esac'"

which incidentally fixes a bug in your alias: you ignore $0 which is the first parameter when using the sh -c '' idiom.

Of course, you can change the sed call to your liking...

Ciao, Dscho