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

["Dirk Süsserott" <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>]

Jay Soffian schrieb:
> 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.
>   
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 tried it and it worked (with linux), then it might
be a problem with my environment: I'm using Git with windows
and the bash (Git-1.5.4-preview20080202.exe). Usually that
works very good, but sometimes it doesn't. Probably this
is one of the few "it doesn't" things.

Dirk