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Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> > But what if you don't want the argument passed at the end of the
>> > alias, but somewhere else?  I suspect the better answer would be to
>> > support $* and $1, $2, $3, et. al interpolation, no?  It was on my
>> > list of things to do when I had a spare moment, but I never got around
>> > to it.
>> 
>> There is a point where you do not want to complicate git, but rather write 
>> a script. This is such a point IMHO.
>
> Such a point exists, I agree, but I would draw after $* and $1/$2/$3
> interpolation.  There is a lot more value that gets added with
> positional arguments support, and it makes git aliases more usable on
> platforms such as Windows where scripting capability is much more
> limited.

That actually sounds sensible, but you could alias

	!sh -c 'command $2 $1 $3'

to reorder the parameters, couldn't you?