Git alias with positional parameters

Question

Basically I\'m trying to alias:

git files 9fa3

...to execute the command:

git diff --name-status 9fa3^ 9fa3

Answer 1

You can also reference sh directly (instead of creating a function):

[alias]
        files = !sh -c 'git diff --name-status $1^ $1' -

(Note the dash at the end of the line -- you'll need that.)