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Aliases we've written so far have been simple, there's what three of them, and we have not worked

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with any arguments, we haven't passed any additional values to them.

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For example, when we run get French, often we'll create a new branch instead of just looking at all

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branches.

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If we do get branch and then a branch name, it creates the branch.

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That would be an argument of value.

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We're passing to the command or get committed.

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If we do them, we provide a commit message.

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So how can I set up an alias, for example?

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Let's say I just want see or maybe s.m for commit with a message so I could write that alias myself.

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s.M equals commit Dasch m.

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But then what about the message itself?

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Well, the way that get aliases are set up, the way they're structured is that it will actually take

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any arguments we pass to whatever our aliases, this command, if we pass something like first commit

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for example, it will take that and pass it through here.

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So it will just append it to the end.

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So if we have two arguments that we pass through.

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For whatever reason, it wouldn't make sense here, but if we did get would pass both of them in that

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same order.

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So this makes it really, really easy to define aliases that involve arguments.

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We can do a lot more complex things, for example, s.m if we want that for commit message.

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So I wouldn't just do see, because sometimes, you know, a lot of the time you need to write full,

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commit messages, open it up in the editor multiple lines, follow a particular format template for

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your message.

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So I would do see them as the shortcut for Dash.

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So if I just do that and I save, do I have any changes in here?

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Let's do our get out or rather s I don't have anything to commit to, so let's just make a new file.

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Let's do touch new jazz.

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All right.

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And then just get as again we can add new jazz.

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We didn't set up an alias for that.

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And now I can do get s.m and then a message like my new commit.

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All right.

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Oh, I totally forgot not to use exclamation points in the terminal, and if we take a look, get l

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forget log, we see my new comet.

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So we successfully made a new comet using s.m so we could do another example.

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Get add there's another one, right.

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We add files, we could just do a equals add and I can add as many arguments after, you know, file

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one file too.

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They all will be included.

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They'll be passed through when I do get a they'll be password to get add.

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So let's try that.

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Here is the repository I'm working on.

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Let's just add some changes to this read me file and to this JS file and to our package JSON.

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I'm really destroying things, but should we change in here?

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Maybe a version.

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No, it doesn't matter.

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I'm just making a lot of changes.

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OK, so if I get X now instead of status, why not use our new alias if I want to add two of them,

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the read Me and New Jersey, I can do get a and then read me and new.

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Now, this only saves us two characters, right?

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It's not that long of a command.

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None of these are saving us a lot, although, you know, it's annoying to do like commit Desh AM.

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But I'm going to show you in the next video some more complicated commands or aliases that people like

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to use that will to steal.

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Well, they're shared for us to use, so we will borrow.

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But let me just demonstrate this.

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So get a with these two arguments, they both were passed through those two values to get at, and if

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we take a look at our status, both of them are ready to be committed.

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And now we can do it with a message, you know, another commit yay!

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And you get L and there we are, another commit yet.

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OK, so you don't really have to worry about arguments.

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You don't have to do anything fancy.

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They're automatically passed through when you define an alias and call it.