Question

I want to create a script name git-as which is basically an alias for calling git with a bunch of pre-defined parameters.

git --git-dir="$1/.git" --work-tree="$1/" <<OTHER PARAMS>>

When I want to call git in another repository, I use:

git-as "$SRC_REPO" commit -m "Changes made to $CLASS_NAME"

How do I get the “other params” bit working properly?

Keep in mind, I don’t want the $1 param (containing the repository location) to be passed to git. Also, the other parameters may include double quotes such as the example shows them used.

Answer 1

In bash (but not all other shells), you can use a variant on array slicing to pick out some of the arguments without having shift the others first:

#!/bin/bash
git --git-dir="$1/.git" --work-tree="$1/" "${@:2}"