Git alias for commit with branch name-CodePudding

I'm trying to create a simple bash alias to commit with my branch name in MacOs. For instance, if my branch if CS-12 I'd usually commit as follows:

git commit /file/location/myfile -m "CS-12 my message goes in here"

So I'm trying to create an alias which will receive only the file name and the message, ie:

gcm /file/location/myfile "my message goes in here"

I've got the following but it's not working:

alias gcm="echo git commit $1 -m \"$(current_branch) - $2\""

where current_branch is the function:

function current_branch() {
  ref=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null) || \
  ref=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD 2> /dev/null) || return
  echo ${ref#refs/heads/}
}

which does work.

The output of running my alias:

gcm src/pages/register/Register.js "aasdasd asdasd"

is giving me back:

git commit -m master - src/pages/register/Register.js aasdasd asdasd

any idea what I'm doing wrong? Bash is not my area of expertise. Thanks

CodePudding user response：

The escaped quotes are 'stripped' by alias, so you need to escape them once more:

alias x="echo \\\"foo\\\""
x
"foo"

CodePudding user response：

aliases do not take parameters. Just write a function:

gcm() { git commit "$1" -m  "$(current_branch) - $2"; }

Note that there's really no need for aliases, and you shouldn't use them. Since at least 1996, the bash man page has stated: "For almost every purpose, aliases are superseded by shell functions."