Re: [PATCH] Make '!' aliases more useful

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:51:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > When an alias starts with an exclamation mark, the rest is interpreted
> > as a shell command. However, all arguments passed to git used to be
> > ignored.
> > 
> > Now you can have an alias like
> > 
> > 	$ git config alias.e '!echo'
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > 	$ git e Hello World
> > 
> > does what you expect it to do.
> 
> 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.

Ciao,
Dscho