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. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html