Comment by duskdozer
11 hours ago
Curious - why write it as a function in presumably .gitconfig and not just a git-summary script in your path? Just seems like a lot of extra escapes and quotes and stuff
11 hours ago
Curious - why write it as a function in presumably .gitconfig and not just a git-summary script in your path? Just seems like a lot of extra escapes and quotes and stuff
It's a very old config that I copied from someone many years ago, agree that it's a bit hard to parse visually.
Not the poster, but one theory: so you only need to copy one file. Portability.
Looks like the above assumes a POSIX shell, so one could argue a dedicated script would actually be more portable.