使用终端的别名创建一个git repo

Question

Hey there I want to create a git repository like this:

curl -u 'USER' https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"REPO"}'

But I want to do it using a alias in terminal (Ubuntu), like

alias newRepo = curl -u 'USER' https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"$1"}';
                git remote add origin git@github.com:USER/$1.git;

So after in the terminal I type:

newRepo test

And it creates the repo and add the remote "origin".

Answer 1

You can do that like this:

First create a script newRepo :

#!/bin/bash
user="$1"
reponame="$2"
if [ "$user" = "" ]; then
read -p "Enter Github username: " user
fi
if [ "$reponame" = "" ]; then
read -p "Enter Github Repository Name: " reponame
fi
curl -u "$user" https://api.github.com/user/repos -d "{\"name\":\"$reponame\"}"

Then make alias:

alias newRepo=/pathtothenewReposcript

Now you can use:

newRepo username reponame

to create a new repository in github.

Answer 2

You can find good examples of git alias involving a shell function in " Git alias for displaying the GitHub commit url ".

The trick is to find the right combination of single quotes/doubles quotes/escape, when typing the git config alias command.

In your case, considering you have a '!', you cannot surround your git config alias parameter with double-quotes if you are in bash ( no '!' within double quotes )

That leaves you with $ single quote ( $'...' ), which accepts ' ! ', and escaped single-quotes (again in bash; that would be easier in zsh):

As an example:

vonc@bigvonc MINGW64 /c/Users/vonc
$ git config --global --replace-all alias.newrepo2 '!f() { echo \'e\'; }; f'
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}'

vonc@bigvonc MINGW64 /c/Users/vonc
$ git config --global --replace-all alias.newrepo2 $'!f() { echo \'e\'; }; f'

The final command would be:

vonc@bigvonc MINGW64 /c/Users/vonc
$ git config --global --replace-all alias.newrepo $'!f() { curl -u \'USER\' https://api.github.com/user/repos -d \'{"name":"$1"}\'; git remote add origin git@github.com:USER/$1.git; }; f'

That being said, if you typed curl -u 'USER' https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"xxx"}' , it would ask you for the password for ' USER '.

That means:

• maybe ' USER ' shoud be $(whoami)
• and... a git config multiple-command alias doesn't seem to support well waiting for an argument to be entered in stdin...

Answer 3

You can't pass parameters to aliases. Create a bash function.