From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: wmpalmer@gmail.com, Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Jared Hance <jaredhance@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current directory.
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 08:36:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE26387.1010904@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpr19j4ng.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Am 5/6/2010 1:43, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> It probably is a good idea to switch aliases to start at the $cwd in 1.8.0
> (or perhaps one major release after it), and using a notation that is more
> descriptive, something like "!(cwd)" vs "!(root)", may give us a better
> transtion strategy than casting cryptic "!!" in the stone.
As always, we should start with the verbose tag, and if one turns out to
be used frequently, use !! for it as a shortcut.
> What other variants might we want to be able to specify while defining and
> using aliases? If cwd vs root is the only distinction, then !(cwd) would
> be a bit overkill, but if we used !! for this new feature, I suspect that
> it would make it much harder to switch the default in the future.
The syntax should use a symbol that is less likely to appear at the start
of a shell script. Perhaps "!@cwd".
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-06 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-05 0:25 [PATCH] Set GIT_PATHNAME_PREFIX with aliases Jared Hance
2010-05-05 0:51 ` Jeff King
2010-05-05 6:53 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-05-05 7:01 ` Jeff King
2010-05-05 7:52 ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 16:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-05 20:28 ` [PATCH] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current directory Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 20:52 ` [PATCH] An alias that starts with "!!" " Jared Hance
2010-05-05 20:58 ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 21:00 ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 21:24 ` Re-submitting patches Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-05 21:28 ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 21:31 ` [PATCH v2] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current directory Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 22:22 ` Will Palmer
2010-05-05 22:33 ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 23:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-06 0:05 ` Adam Brewster
2010-05-06 6:21 ` Will Palmer
2010-05-06 6:26 ` Will Palmer
2010-05-06 6:36 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2010-05-06 7:02 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-05-05 22:02 ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2010-05-05 22:13 ` Eli Barzilay
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