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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make '!' aliases more useful
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:55:49 -0400
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On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:51:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> When an alias starts with an exclamation mark, the rest is interpreted
> as a shell command. However, all arguments passed to git used to be
> ignored.
> 
> Now you can have an alias like
> 
> 	$ git config alias.e '!echo'
> 
> and
> 
> 	$ git e Hello World
> 
> does what you expect it to do.

But what if you don't want the argument passed at the end of the
alias, but somewhere else?  I suspect the better answer would be to
support $* and $1, $2, $3, et. al interpolation, no?  It was on my
list of things to do when I had a spare moment, but I never got around
to it.

					- Ted