From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make '!' aliases more useful
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:14:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070703011429.GB5322@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr6nqwgdi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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?
(I'm assuming here that we are trying to support Windows better, since
there are projects such as Mozilla, and MySQL that care very much
about first class Windows support. We could say this isn't important
enough, and that would be fine; but I wanted to at least raise the
question.)
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-03 1:14 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 [this message]
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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