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

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

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Dirk Süsserott wrote:
>
>   
>> 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"
>>>       
>
> Why so complicated?
>
> 	atag = tag -a -m
>
> should work already.
>
> Hth,
> Dscho
Almost, but not what I want. With
    atag = tag -a -m
I still have to say
    $ git atag mytag mytag
But I just wanna say
    $ git atag mytag
to create an annotated tag as if I've said
    $ git tag -a -m "mytag" mytag

Dirk