Passing all parameters to a git alias

Question

To simplify my concern, I narrowed it to the following:

I have a GIT alias defined as such:

cii = "!f() { git commit "$@"; }; f"

When I run

$ git cii -m "test1"

It works fine, but it fails with

$ git cii -m "test1 and test2" error: pathspec 'and' did not match any file(s) known to git. error: pathspec 'test2' did not match any file(s) known to git.

Any idea ?

Note that my real alias is much more complex that the above, so responding with cii = "commit" is not an option. The point here is passing the input parameters to the function.

Why "and"? Why not just git cii -m test test1?

CCC
– CCC

2013-06-17 21:48:04 +00:00
Commented Jun 17, 2013 at 21:48 — CCC
– CCC, Commented Jun 17, 2013 at 21:48

David Fraser · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-04 11:29:03Z

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You need to quote the embedded doublequotes.

cii = "!f() { git commit \"$@\"; }; f"

git will then perform standard shell expansion of "$@" which translates to a single word for each parameter - like "$1" "$2" "$3" ...

edited Apr 4, 2017 at 11:29

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Olivier Refalo Over a year ago

yes, looks like it. yet my real alias is still failing.. think I didn't narrow the right issue.

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