Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 23, 2008, 19:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20080323193842.GA23227@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <47E66382.5030800@dirk.my1.cc>

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:04:50PM +0100, Dirk Süsserott wrote:

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>> atag = !git tag -a -m "$1"
> Thanks for the quick reply. Did you try that out? I did
>
> $ git atag foo
>
> with your definition and got a tag with message "$1" and
> the tag's name was "'foo'" (surrounded by single quotes).

If you want to use positional parameters, you have to invoke the shell explicitly. Try:

  [alias]
    atag = !sh -c 'git tag -a -m "$0" "$0"'

As an aside, this should be "$1" but it looks like we don't pass the shell a proper argv[0].

-Peff