Re: [PATCH 3/3] help: respect aliases

["Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>  Sure.  The combination of expand, sed, and gnused hurts my eyes
>  ;-)
>
>  One good lesson to take home is that by ending your lines with
>  '|', you can tell the shell that you are not done with the
>  pipeline you are forming yet.

The backslashes aren't there for the shell, they are there for the git
config parser. Anyway, I reworked it a bit:

alias = "! sh -c 'case $# in \
               0) git config --get-regexp \"^alias\\.\" \
                  | sort | sed \"s/^alias\\.//; s/=/ /\" \
                  | while read n v; do \
                     printf \"%-16s\" \"$n\"; \
                     echo \"$v\" | fmt -sw 63 | sed \"2,$ s/^/\t\t/\" ;\
                  done ;; \
               1) git config \"alias.$1\" | fmt -sw 78 ;; esac' -"

And yes, it's still ugly.

Always happy to have folks help me bikeshed my git config. :-)

j.