On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > 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. Such a point exists, I agree, but I would draw after $* and $1/$2/$3 interpolation. There is a lot more value that gets added with positional arguments support, and it makes git aliases more usable on platforms such as Windows where scripting capability is much more limited. Regards, - 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
