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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:38:42PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

>     atag = !sh -c 'git tag -a -m "$0" "$0"'
> 
> As an aside, this should be "$1" but it looks like we don't pass the
> shell a proper argv[0].

Hmm, I take it back. Git is doing the right thing, but it is a quirk of
the shell that it counts the first argument as the "name of the script"
even though the script actually comes from "-c".

  $ sh -c 'echo $0' foo
  foo
  $ echo 'echo $0' | sh
  sh

-Peff