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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:38:42 -0400
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:04:50PM +0100, Dirk S=C3=BCsserott wrote:

>> atag =3D !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 =3D !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