On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Jay Soffian wrote: > > > This too would be less ugly as a built-in: > > > > [elided so as not to burn anyone's eyes out again :-) -- jay] > > Wow. This would look less ugly as an alias like this, too: > > alias = "!sh -c 'case $# in \ > 0) git config --get-regexp \"^alias\\.\" | sed \"s/^alias\\.//\";; \ > *) git config \"alias.$0\" ;; \ > esac'" > > which incidentally fixes a bug in your alias: you ignore $0 which is the > first parameter when using the sh -c '' idiom. Test mine. Test yours. See which works. :-) At least on my system, I had to use: sh -c '...' - And then refer to $1. > Of course, you can change the sed call to your liking... Most of the ugliness in mine is that I crammed the whitespace down and that I'm using a quite involved pipeline to reformat all my aliases so they fit into my terminal window. But the --get-regexp is a good tip. j. - 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
