Re: Weird behavior of shell variables in git aliases

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> But interestingly, that's _not_ the behavior as of Erik's 7f51f8b
> (alias: use run_command api to execute aliases, 2011-01-07), which is in
> master but not yet released. With that, we end up executing:
>
>   sh -c 'echo $1 && echo $1 "$@"' 'echo $1 && echo $1' 'foo'
>
> which prints "foo foo". So it is technically a regression. I don't know
> how much we care; using positional parameters like this was already
> nonsensical, as shown above.
>
> For reference, what you actually want (in either system) is:
>
>   $ git config alias.test1
>   !sh -c 'echo $1 && echo $1' -

Oh, I should have been paying a bit more attention.  I've been assuming
that we were turning "!anything" into { "sh", "-c", "anything", "-" }
followed by the user supplied arguments.
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