.gitconfig [alias] does not recognize lines
I'm trying to make an alias for my GIT that looks something like this:
[alias]
send = !git add . && git commit -m "AUTOCOMMIT: $(date)" && git push
This alias is for minor changes that don't need any communication. The problem is that whenever I run git send
it returns this:
$ git send
error: pathspec 'Fri' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'Aug' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec '22' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec '11:31:18' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'PDT' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec '2014' did not match any file(s) known to git.
If I ran the command manually, there was no error:
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "AUTOCOMMIT: $(date)"
[master] AUTOCOMMIT: Fri Aug 22 11:37:17 PDT 2014
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
$ git push
Counting objects: 7, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 368 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
To <gitRepo>.git
master -> master
Any ideas?
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As per git-config(1)
, under CONFIGURATION FILE: Syntax :
String values can be fully or partially enclosed in double quotes. You need to enclose variable values in double quotes if you want to preserve leading or trailing spaces, or if the value variable contains comment characters (i.e. contains
#
or;
). double quote"
and backslashes\
in variable values must be escaped: use\"
for"
and\\
for\
.
You don't need to add the second set of quotes, so:
[alias]
send = !git add . && git commit -m \"AUTOCOMMIT: $(date)\" && git push
Also, if you store your aliases with git config
, you can avoid having to do escaping manually:
$ git config --global \
alias.send '!git add . && git commit -m "AUTOCOMMIT: $(date)" && git push'
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