Eli Zaretskii
eliz****@gnu*****
Sun Apr 15 02:01:43 JST 2018
> From: Keith Marshall <keith****@users*****> > Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:13:16 +0100 > > >> $ git myalias @{-1} > > What is the shell? If its GNU bash, (as our MSYS shell would be), > then braces are special; bash performs brace expansion on the comma > separated list within them, (and in this case, there's only one item > in the list). You need to quote the final argument, to suppress the > effect of brace expansion. > > >> This results in: > >> > >> "git myalias @-1" > > This is exactly the result I would expect, after brace expansion of > the single item list "-1". FWIW, invoking this command in MSYS Bash: $ echo @{-1} yields @{-1}, i.e. no expansion happens. Moreover, if I invoke a MinGW program with this argument, it receives the literal @{-1} as well in its argv[] array.
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