Re: [PATCH] Make '!' aliases more useful

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.

					- Ted