Re: [PATCH] Reserve a slot for argv[0] in default_arg.

On 2009-10-04, Junio C Hamano wrote:

It is a command specific aliasing mechanism; not even I use the feature
these days, since "alias.*" is much easier to use.  But there is no strong
need to remove it either; it is not too much hassle to keep it for people
who do use it.  Perhaps deprecate it and remove it in the long run?

I didn't know about alias.*.  Excellent.  I'll be using that.
 

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Correct. Junio sent a patch to fix this problem in June[1]. I guess he
must have dropped his own patch, or he wasn't satisfied with how parse
options clobbers things.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/121142

I had it kept still in my Inbox; thanks for noticing.  Petter's patch does
essentially the same thing, but the old patch had a better log message
that described where in the history the fix should apply, so I'd probably
use that with your test squashed in.

The code is slightly nicer to, I think, but you can probably drop "+ 20"
in the grow-case now.