Re: Help creating git alias

From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 31, 2013, 15:36 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPZPVFYFSBRHThO08LmuN_0fc55gYX-A+Y3=yA_MESko1t6fXQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk3gu9jst.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> That was my initial intention, because I would like to be able to pass
>> parameters like to git log or git blame correctly without the explicit
>> use of $1. Could you please advise about how to make it work with the
>> !sh -c ?
>>
>> Because the same exact (sed 's/@\\S*//') syntax didn't work with "sh -c".
>
> You can make it work if you think step-by-step.  First, this is what
> you want to run:
>
>         sh -c 'git log --format="..." "$@" | sed "s/@\S*//"' -
>
> so that "git euguess master..next" would turn into
>
>         sh -c 'git log --format="..." "$@" | sed "s/@\S*//"' - master..next
>
> Now, you want to wrap it into an alias, i.e.
>
>         [alias]
>                 euguess = "!sh -c ..."
>
> That ... part is read by our configuration reader, so you need to
> quote the double quotes and backslashes with backslash, which would
> give you something like:
>
>         [alias]
>                 euguess = "!sh -c 'git log --format=\"%h %ae %s\" --date=short \"$@\" | sed \"s/@\\S*//\"' -"
>
>

Junio,

Thanks for taking the time - I appreciate that a lot. It does work properly now except there is some difference between the required pathnames:

when i'm in a subfolder in git repo i can say

git log filename

But it seems that if the alias is used i need to specify full path from the root of the repo no matter where i am.

git log a/b/c/filename

the difference is obviously in the working directory

when i add an alias:

pd = "!sh -c 'pwd'"

i get this:

$ git pd /home/users/euguess/repo

$ pwd /home/users/euguess/repo/a/b/c

Is there any way to help that situation?

Thanks, Eugene