Question

Since I clone from a machine with a long name a few times a day, I would like to create an git alias command.

Instead of

$ git clone git://machine.with.name.i.always.mistype/with/same/dirs/here/REPO.git

I would like to use (e.g. alias klone)

$ git klone REPO.git

How can I concatenate REPO.git inside a git alias to the long host and default directory stem?

Answer 1

[alias]
    klone = !sh -c 'git clone git://machine.with.name.i.always.mistype/with/same/dirs/here/$1' -

should do the trick.