Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> wrote:
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> Hi, I've a question concerning git config and the alias things.
> I'd like to create an alias 'atag' that creates an annotated
> tag with the message being the same as the tag. Usually I create
> annotated tags like this:
>
> $ git tag -a -m "mytag" mytag
>
> (BTW: It's not documented, but I have the impression that
> the '-a' switch is implicitely added when the '-m' switch
> is present. Is that true?)
>
> I'd like to have an alias like this:
>
> [alias]
> atag = tag -a -m "$1"
>
> So that I can simply call
>
> $ git atag mytag
>
> Is it possible to pass parameters to the alias definition?
> With the definition above I got a tag with message "$1".
atag = !git tag -a -m "$1"
j.