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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.

  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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