From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Dirk Süsserott" <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:54:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490803231854u6ee76437h5acf37b0b602f3b1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080323194514.GA23492@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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
All my shell aliases therefor look like:
h = "!sh -c 'git alias \"$1\" || git help \"$1\"' -"
(Notice the trailing '-'.)
j.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-24 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-23 13:28 git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such) Dirk Süsserott
2008-03-23 13:45 ` Jay Soffian
2008-03-23 14:04 ` Dirk Süsserott
2008-03-23 14:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-23 14:31 ` Dirk Süsserott
2008-03-23 19:38 ` Jeff King
2008-03-23 19:38 ` Jeff King
2008-03-23 19:45 ` Jeff King
2008-03-24 1:54 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2008-03-24 2:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-24 13:15 ` Dirk Süsserott
2008-03-24 19:29 ` Jeff King
2008-03-24 14:54 ` Jay Soffian
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