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"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 '-'?