Hi,
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> Here's something I discovered recently about !aliases that other folks might
> find useful. The canonical form for a shell alias is something like
>
> git config alias.foo '!echo bar'
>
> where any args given to foo, as in `git foo blah` are passed along to the
> shell, so in this case `echo bar blah` would be invoked.
>
> Something that I find very useful is the ability to interpolate arguments into
> the middle of a command. This doesn't seem possible at first glance, not
> without a helper script. But it certainly is possible, with the help of shell
> functions:
>
> git config alias.reverse '!foo () { args=''; while [[ -n "$*" ]]; do args="$1
> $args"; shift; done; echo $args; }; foo'
On the gitwiki, you will find a more elegant solution using "sh -c".
Ciao,
Dscho
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