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

As stated by Drealmer above:

« Be careful, ! will run at the root of the repository, so using relative paths when calling your alias will not give the results you might expect. – Drealmer Aug 8 '13 at 16:28 »

GIT_PREFIX being set by git to the subdirectory you're in, you can circumvent this by first changing the directory :

git config --global alias.ls '!cd "${GIT_PREFIX:-.}"; ls -al'