I'm trying to write a git alias that removes from the commit messages the string "[ci skip]" (placed at the end of the message), but I'm having problem with escaping. The alias takes all the commit from the one passed as argument to HEAD.
If I run the following command:
git filter-branch -f --msg-filter "sed -e \"s/\[ci skip\]$//g\"" master..HEAD
it works as expected. Anyway if I create the following alias:
unwip = !sh -c 'git filter-branch -f --msg-filter \"sed -e \\\"s/\[ci skip\]$//g\\\"\" $0..HEAD'
and I run git unwip master it complains about bad config, but I expect it to behave as the previous commads. How can I fix this?
EDIT This solution doesn't work in all cases. Here is a correct solution which works in all cases.
I'm using bash as a command-line and the following alias worked for me:
unwip = "!f() { git filter-branch --msg-filter 'sed -e "s/[ci skip/]$/g"' $1..HEAD ; }; f"
The only downside is that you're specifying the interpreter and always using sh. In my case I'm relying on user's shell. Though I don't believe it will be a problem in any of major shells as we're doing just basic stuff.