Hi Peff & Hannes, On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 07:42:35PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > > > Maybe it's time to aim for > > > > git config alias.d2u.shell \ > > 'f() { git ls-files "$@" | xargs dos2unix; }; f' > > git config alias.d2u.cdup false > > git d2u *.c # yada! > > That would be nice. It would also allow "alias.foo_bar.shell"; right now > "alias.foo_bar" is forbidden because of the config syntax, which does > not allow underscores outside of the "subsection" name. So what about this? [alias] d2u = !dos2unix [alias "d2u"] shell = 'f() { git ls-files "$@" | xargs dos2unix; }; f' exec = C:/cygwin64/bin/dos2unix.exe You introduce all kinds of ambiguities here that did not exist before... Ciao, Dscho