Git alias with positional parameters

Question

Basically I\'m trying to alias:

git files 9fa3

...to execute the command:

git diff --name-status 9fa3^ 9fa3

Answer 1

I wanted to do this with an alias that does this:

git checkout $1;
git merge --ff-only $2;
git branch -d $2;

In the end, I created a shell script named git-m that has this content:

#!/bin/bash -x
set -e

#by naming this git-m and putting it in your PATH, git will be able to run it when you type "git m ..."

if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]
then
  echo "Wrong number of arguments. Should be 2, was $#";
  exit 1;
fi

git checkout $1;
git merge --ff-only $2;
git branch -d $2;

This has the benefit that it's much more legible because it's on multiple lines. Plus I like being able to call bash with -x and set -e. You can probably do this whole thing as an alias, but it would be super ugly and difficult to maintain.

Because the file is named git-m you can run it like this: git m foo bar