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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git-config: aliases with parameter expansion ($1 and such)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:19:01 +0100 (CET)
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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
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