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Steven Morgan
Steven Morgan

Reputation: 77

Adding Git Commit to bash_profile with prompt?

I want aliases for:

git add --a
git commit -m ""
git push origin master
git pull origin master

I have made them all, except how do I have terminal prompt me for a commit message, and then store it?

So:

commit
"What's your commit message"
added footer <enter>
git commit -m "added footer"

Is that possible to do?

I tried doing a printf and read variable, and then inserting that with $variable but it didn't work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 334

Answers (3)

Rajender Joshi
Rajender Joshi

Reputation: 4205

This is what I personally use in my .bash_profile:

commit(){
  git commit -m "$*"
}
alias gc=commit

Simple and sweet. 

$ gc This is a really long commit message

Upvotes: 1

Mihai Maruseac
Mihai Maruseac

Reputation: 21460

You can do it via a function instead of a single alias:

commit () {
    echo "What's your commit message?"
    read a
    git commit -m $a
}

Though, even in this case, you won't be able to have commits longer than a line. If you want more than that (and it is recommended that you do this), you should open an editor with a temporary file and use that.

Upvotes: 1

pfnuesel
pfnuesel

Reputation: 15350

Use functions instead of aliases:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

commit(){
    echo "What's your commit message?"
    read msg
    git commit -m "$msg"
}

Upvotes: 4

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