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kibowki
kibowki

Reputation: 4376

"fatal: Paths with -a does not make sense" in ZSH alias function

I have the below alias and function set up, and when I run gca "My commit message" I get fatal: Paths with -a does not make sense. Any idea how I can fix this?

alias gca='gca'

function gca() {
    git commit -am "$1"
}

Running gca -x outputs the following:

gca -x
error: unknown switch `x'
usage: git commit [<options>] [--] <pathspec>...

    -q, --quiet           suppress summary after successful commit
    -v, --verbose         show diff in commit message template

Commit message options
    -F, --file <file>     read message from file
    --author <author>     override author for commit
    --date <date>         override date for commit
    -m, --message <message>
                        commit message
    -c, --reedit-message <commit>
                        reuse and edit message from specified commit
    -C, --reuse-message <commit>
                        reuse message from specified commit
    --fixup <commit>      use autosquash formatted message to fixup specified commit
    --squash <commit>     use autosquash formatted message to squash specified commit
    --reset-author        the commit is authored by me now (used with -C/-c/--amend)
    -s, --signoff         add Signed-off-by:
    -t, --template <file>
                        use specified template file
    -e, --edit            force edit of commit
    --cleanup <default>   how to strip spaces and #comments from message
    --status              include status in commit message template
    -S, --gpg-sign[=<key-id>]
                        GPG sign commit

Commit contents options
    -a, --all             commit all changed files
    -i, --include         add specified files to index for commit
    --interactive         interactively add files
    -p, --patch           interactively add changes
    -o, --only            commit only specified files
    -n, --no-verify       bypass pre-commit and commit-msg hooks
    --dry-run             show what would be committed
    --short               show status concisely
    --branch              show branch information
    --porcelain           machine-readable output
    --long                show status in long format (default)
    -z, --null            terminate entries with NUL
    --amend               amend previous commit
    --no-post-rewrite     bypass post-rewrite hook
    -u, --untracked-files[=<mode>]
                        show untracked files, optional modes: all, normal, no. (Default: all)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 666

Answers (2)

kibowki
kibowki

Reputation: 4376

Turns out gca was an alias established by the git plugin for oh-my-zsh. After the source oh-my-zsh.sh line in my ~/.zshrc, I unalias gca, and alias gca='git commit -am' and everything works as expected. Note to all future readers - always put your custom aliases after things such as oh-my-zsh.

Upvotes: 0

user1934428
user1934428

Reputation: 22291

You have an alias and a function with the same name, PLUS the alias defines itself. This doesn't make sense.

Remove the alias definition. It should then work, but if you continue to encounter problems, put a 

set -x

in the first line of your function (and a set +x at the end) and run it again.

Alternatively, you can drop the function and do everything by alias:

alias gcd='git commit -am'

Upvotes: 1

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