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From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:54:28 -0400
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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.