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From: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make '!' aliases more useful
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:24:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4689F9CB.ED2A2848@eudaptics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070703011429.GB5322@thunk.org

Theodore Tso wrote:
> 
> 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?

Shouldn't be a problem for Cygwin users, nor for MinGW port users. The
latter need a Bourne shell anyway for the various scripted git tools.

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-03  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-01 21:51 [PATCH] Make '!' aliases more useful Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-02 14:55 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-02 15:55   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-02 16:08     ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-02 23:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-03  1:14         ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-03  1:37           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 12:10             ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-03  7:24           ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2007-07-03  7:07       ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-03 11:27         ` Johannes Schindelin

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