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

Theodore Tso wrote:

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:11:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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.

That actually sounds sensible, but you could alias

      !sh -c 'command $2 $1 $3'

to reorder the parameters, couldn't you?

Um, how would that work on the Windows platform?

Shouldn't be a problem for Cygwin users, nor for MinGW port users. The
latter need a Bourne shell anyway for the various scripted git tools.

-- Hannes