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Huh I had no idea $1/$2/etc worked as-is in an alias. The advice I learned years ago for dealing with any alias that needs to do something custom with parameters is to write it like git config alias.foo '!f() { actual command goes here }; f' as that will pass all the args to the shell function. But if git is already setting it up so the args work then suffixing the alias with ";:" seems simpler.
> The advice I learned years ago Being able to use $1/$2/etc directly might be a relatively new development. EDIT: Or maybe not. This might have been doable since 2010: https://github.com/git/git/commit/8dba1e634af1d973a47fca616a...
2010 is still “new development” to me