On Jul 15, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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".
I'd forgotten you can do that, but I disagree that it's more elegant.
It's a bit shorter, certainly, but it also invokes another process.
Using a shell function doesn't.
-Kevin Ballard
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