From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 07:02:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current directory.
Message-ID: <vpqfx25a4xg.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vpr19j4ng.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> It probably is a good idea to switch aliases to start at the $cwd in 1.8.0
> (or perhaps one major release after it), and using a notation that is more
> descriptive, something like "!(cwd)" vs "!(root)", may give us a better
> transtion strategy than casting cryptic "!!" in the stone.

I like this: Allow !(cwd) and !(root) today, with !(root) being just
like "!", and change plain "!" to mean !(cwd) in a future major
release.

If other people have ideas for other features, the syntax can also be
extended to !(cwd,some-option) or so.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/