Can I make ALIAS for Travis YAML configuration command? ... "travis encrypt GITHUB_TOKEN=****** --add"?

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I have a Personal Access Token from Github that I use in many of my projects. Since the token has read/write ability for all my repos, it's important I use the Travis Command Line Tool to encrypt the GITHUB_TOKENand place it in my .travis.yml as a secure variable:

travis encrypt GITHUB_TOKEN=****secret**** --add

The Problem

  • The GITHUB_TOKEN value is a hard to remember string of random characters, so every time I need it I first have to go find it, and then copy n' paste it into git bash.
  • Whenever I use the travis encrypt method, it associates the GITHUB_TOKEN with ONLY the repository I'm in.

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Question

Is it possible to make this travis command an alias I can use over and over?

[alias]
git repo-encrypt = "travis encrypt GITHUB_TOKEN=****secret**** --add"

If so, how and where?

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1 Answers

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The simple way to add the alias would be to run this one-liner:

git config --global alias.repo-encrypt '!travis encrypt GITHUB_TOKEN=****secret**** --add'

Alternatively, you can run git config --global --edit to open the global Git configuration in your configured text editor (controlled by the core.editor config value of Git). Then add the following to the file:

[alias] 
    repo-encrypt = "!travis encrypt GITHUB_TOKEN=****secret**** --add"

After you add the alias, running git repo-encrypt will execute the Travis command. For future reference, starting a Git alias with a ! makes it execute the command as though it were a normal shell, instead of simply appending the alias onto the end of the git command as it would normally.

See the Git SCM Book page on aliases for more information.