Re: [PATCH 3/3] help: respect aliases

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

 On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Jay Soffian wrote:

 > This too would be less ugly as a built-in:
 >
 >  [elided so as not to burn anyone's eyes out again :-) -- jay]

 Wow.  This would look less ugly as an alias like this, too:

 alias = "!sh -c 'case $# in \
        0) git config --get-regexp \"^alias\\.\" | sed \"s/^alias\\.//\";; \
        *) git config \"alias.$0\" ;; \
        esac'"

 which incidentally fixes a bug in your alias: you ignore $0 which is the
 first parameter when using the sh -c '' idiom.

Test mine. Test yours. See which works. :-)

At least on my system, I had to use:

  sh -c '...' -

And then refer to $1.

 Of course, you can change the sed call to your liking...

Most of the ugliness in mine is that I crammed the whitespace down and
that I'm using a quite involved pipeline to reformat all my aliases so
they fit into my terminal window.

But the --get-regexp is a good tip.

j.