Re: Help creating git alias

[Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> lg=!git log --pretty=format:'%h %ad %ae %s' --date=short | sed 's/@\\S*//g'
>>>
>>> should work.
>>
>>
>> It did! thanks! I didn't know that "!sh -c" is not needed
>
> "sh -c" is often used when you pass arguments to your scriptlets,
> e.g. to allow
>
>         git lg master..next
>
> you would want
>
>         sh -c 'git log ... "$@" | sed ...' -
>
> so that
>
>         git lg master..next
>
> turns into
>
>         sh -c 'git log ... "$@" | sed ...' - master..next
>
> which makes $1="master..next" and fed to "git log".

Junio,

That was my initial intention, because I would like to be able to pass
parameters like to git log or git blame correctly without the explicit
use of $1. Could you please advise about how to make it work with the
!sh -c ?

Because the same exact (sed 's/@\\S*//') syntax didn't work with "sh -c".

Thanks,
Eugene