From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:45:34 GMT
Subject: Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)
Message-ID: <76718490803230645k13471472sc99932563b0239da@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47E65AF5.4060708@dirk.my1.cc>

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> wrote:
> 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.