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 - 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
