From dfd42a3c6281275b518f10938dcd858558cd82e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:33:58 -0500 Subject: Allow aliases to expand to shell commands If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, treat it as a shell command which is run using system(3). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- git.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'git.c') diff --git a/git.c b/git.c index c43d4ff1fd..45265f14d0 100644 --- a/git.c +++ b/git.c @@ -159,6 +159,16 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv) alias_command = (*argv)[0]; git_config(git_alias_config); if (alias_string) { + if (alias_string[0] == '!') { + trace_printf("trace: alias to shell cmd: %s => %s\n", + alias_command, alias_string + 1); + ret = system(alias_string + 1); + if (ret >= 0 && WIFEXITED(ret) && + WEXITSTATUS(ret) != 127) + exit(WEXITSTATUS(ret)); + die("Failed to run '%s' when expanding alias '%s'\n", + alias_string + 1, alias_command); + } count = split_cmdline(alias_string, &new_argv); option_count = handle_options(&new_argv, &count); memmove(new_argv - option_count, new_argv, -- cgit 1.2.3-korg