[Bug 5190] New: Make it possible to write cross-platform shell aliases
mercurial-bugs at selenic.com
mercurial-bugs at selenic.com
Tue Apr 5 11:55:17 UTC 2016
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5190
Bug ID: 5190
Summary: Make it possible to write cross-platform shell aliases
Product: Mercurial
Version: 3.5.2
Hardware: PC
OS: Windows
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: feature
Priority: wish
Component: Mercurial
Assignee: bugzilla at selenic.com
Reporter: gabor.stefanik at nng.com
CC: mercurial-devel at selenic.com
On Windows, we let cmd.exe (or possibly command.com) handle variable name
substitution in shell aliases. This means, there is no cross-platform way to
reference the arguments passed to such an alias (e.g. cmd.exe requires writing
%HG% instead of $HG).
We need a new type of shell alias (e.g. indicated by a double exclamation
mark), where Hg does the variable substitution itself, in a predictable,
cross-platform way.
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