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

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

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