On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:20:28 -0700 (PDT) Artem Grebenkin <gre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> there is some nice feature in bash if I would like to run next > command with last executed commands arguments *$(history -p !!:2*)*: > So for example: > I have alias in .bashrc *alias ll="ls -la $(history -p !!:2*)"* > >* ls dev prod* > > *ll* > *ls -la dev prod* > > So this expanding dont seems to work in .gitconfig. If I use *da > =!"git add $(history -p !!:2*)"*, git says unable to expand !!:2*. > My use case is, after I ran *git diff test.py test1.py* and checked > all changes stage only this files, so I should then run *git add > test.py test1.py*. Instead I'd like to run* git ad*. Git (on POSIX) uses "/bin/sh" when building the actual command to be executed by the shell. I suspect your /bin/sh is symlinked to something other than /bin/bash (for instance, on a typical contemporary Debian system /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash which is a stripped-down but very fast no-frills implementation). Unfortunately, I don't see any means to explicitly tell Git which shell it should use (I supposed there might be a configuration option, like "shell.cmd", for this, but failed to find anything like that), so your options appear to be limited: 1) Implement support for configuring the shell in Git and send the patch upstream -- this is the best one, IMO. 2) Do not use non-standard shell features. 3) Create a bunch of support scripts which have "#!/bin/bash" as their shebang line and call them from your aliases. 4) Embed a call to /bin/bash into your aliases, like "/bin/bash -c 'git add $(history -p !!:2*)'" This should work but you must be aware of the double interpretation of the command text that will happen -- first by /bin/sh, then by /bin/bash. Running your alias under GIT_TRACE=1 in the environment might help with debugging this. 5) Make system shell be /bin/bash. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
