From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make '!' aliases more useful
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:08:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070702160810.GD4720@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707021654450.4071@racer.site>
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> There is a point where you do not want to complicate git, but rather write
> a script. This is such a point IMHO.
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.
Regards,
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-02 16:08 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 [this message]
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
2007-07-03 7:07 ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-03 11:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
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