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How can I create an alias for a command that includes a space?

Most of my my aliases are of this form: alias p='pwd' I want to alias git commit so that it does git commit -v But trying to create an alias with a space gives an error: $ alias 'git commit'='git ...
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3answers
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Answer yes in a bash script

I'm trying to do a git clone trough a bash script, but the first time that I run the script and the server is not known yet the script fails. I have something like this: yes | git clone ...
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votes
2answers
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Can git configuration be set across multiple repositories?

Git seems to support configuration values at three levels: Per-system global settings (stored in /etc/git-core) Per-user global settings (stored in ~/.gitconfig) Per-repository local settings ...
5
votes
4answers
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Change command-line “environment” to programs command

In a console, is it possible to change into a commands "environment"? To explain, I take "git" as an example. While programming and using a git repository, I change to the repos path and then do many ...
3
votes
1answer
130 views

Bash script with quotes and spaces

I'm trying to get some nice output out of git: FORMAT='%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' LOG_PARAMS="--color --pretty=format:$FORMAT --abbrev-commit ...
3
votes
1answer
262 views

Git - remove deleted files

I'm using this simple git alias rmdel = "!git rm $(git ls-files -d)" meant "remove deleted", i.e. to remove from the staging area all files deleted from the file system. It works fine except ...
3
votes
2answers
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create pseudo shell for a command

I feel like this should be straighforward to some degree... Basically, for some command, I want to be able to invoke another command that will scope all params to that command. so... git commit -am ...