From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:15:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] help: respect aliases
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802261515210.22527@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <76718490802260656s459e9241ie2a2d6b255c77fa4@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jay Soffian wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> >  On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Jay Soffian wrote:
> >
> >  > This too would be less ugly as a built-in:
> >  >
> >  >  [elided so as not to burn anyone's eyes out again :-) -- jay]
> >
> >  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.
> 
> Test mine. Test yours. See which works. :-)

I tested only mine.  It works.

Ciao,
Dscho