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From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"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: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:54:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490803240754g161998bereb5bf3a22eb8ca76@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzlso3kjc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > All my shell aliases therefor look like:
>  >
>  > h          = "!sh -c 'git alias \"$1\" || git help \"$1\"' -"
>  >
>  > (Notice the trailing '-'.)
>
>  Just for my curiosity, why aren't they
>
>  > h          = "!sh -c 'git alias \"$0\" || git help \"$0\"'"
>
>  without trailing '-'?

Lost to the mists of time. But I think for consistency with other
aliases where I was checking $#. Maybe.

j.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-24 14:55 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
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 [this message]

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