can not use some of my aliases with bare repo

Question

I have some aliases like:

add-and-commit = !git add -A && git commit -m
last = !git --no-pager log -1 --oneline
stash-and-reset = !git stash && git reset --hard HEAD

I track my dotfiles with a bare repo.

d = !git --git-dir=/media/blueray/WDPurple/_DataBackup/_Work/_DailyBackups/dotfilesBackup --work-tree=$HOME

Now the problem is that, i can use:

git add-and-commit
git last
git stash-and-reset

But I can not do:

git d add-and-commit
git d last
git d stash-and-reset

Is there any solution for that?

Answer 1

The following works for me:

git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles
touch $HOME/.dotfiles/.test

git config --global alias.ac '!git add -A && git commit -m'
git config --global alias.dot '!git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ $HOME/.dotfiles'
git dot ac "Commit message"

The dot command also works in combination with last and stash-and-reset.

git dot last
4c1db03 (HEAD -> master) testtest

P.S. I didn't set --work-tree=$HOME because I would get too many files, but it would work.

Another way to solve your problem is to create a bash alias to track your dotfiles, this can also be used in combination with other git commands and aliases. See for instance this article!