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From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Subject: Re: Advanced aliases with arguments (?)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:45:51 +0100
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 01:40:20AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read on http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Aliases that
> 
>         Starting with version 1.5.3, git supports appending the
>         arguments to commands prefixed with "!", too. If you need to
>         perform a reordering, or to use an argument twice, you can use
>         this trick:
> 
>         [alias]
>                 example = !sh -c "ls $1 $0"
> 
> 
> AFAICT, it doesn't work with the 1.5.3.5 I use. Is it false advertising
> or was there some regression ?

Aaaah it does work, but you need to use single quotes, not double
quotes.

Mike