How to make .bashrc aliases available within a vim shell command? (:!...)

I use bash on mac and one of the aliases is like this

alias gitlog='git --no-pager  log -n 20 --pretty=format:%h%x09%an%x09%ad%x09%s --date=short --no-merges'

However when I do

 :! gitlog

I get

/bin/bash: gitlog: command not found 

I know I can add aliases like this in my .gitconfig

[alias]
	co = checkout
	st = status
	ci = commit
	br = branch
	df = diff

However I don't want to add all my bash aliases to .gitconfig. That is not DRY.

Is there a better solution?

Bash doesn’t load your .bashrc unless it’s interactive.

Run :set shellcmdflag=-ic to set it to interactive for the current session.

To make the setting permanent, add set set shellcmdflag=-ic to the end of your .vimrc file.

Use a bang (!) before sending a command to shell. For example: :! cd folder/.

I know this question was already previously "answered", but I have a problem with the answer. The shell doesn't need to be set to interactive in Vim. See this thread for an alternative answer without having to exit an interactive shell.

> If you want non-interactive shell (as default) but expansion of bash aliases, put your alias definitions in a file, e.g. .bash_aliases and explicitly enable alias expansion in this file:

> shopt -s expand_aliases
> alias la='ls -la' > > Then add this to your .vimrc so the aliases file is actually read each time you run a shell command from within vim:

> let $BASH_ENV = "~/.bash_aliases"

This solution was suggested by "Jakob". See the link below for the original. I tested this on Mac OS X 10.9 and it worked flawlessly!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8841116/vim-not-recognizing-aliases-when-in-interactive-mode

I know it may be an old question, however none of the above answers worked for me as desired. So for the ones who came here from googling and for (oh-my-)zsh users:

My solution to this was as simply as copying .zshrc to .zshenv - as per http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Intro/intro_3.html:

> `.zshenv' is sourced on all invocations of the shell, unless the -f option is set. It should contain commands to set the command search path, plus other important environment variables. `.zshenv' should not contain commands that produce output or assume the shell is attached to a tty.

So $ cp ~/.zshrc ~/.zshenv will do the thing.

Note that depending on how your bash dotfiles are configured you may want to use the -l rather than the -i option. This will launch the shell as login shell.

I don't feel too comfortable with setting the -i option, as it has quite some impact and I am using the shell often from vim. What I'd do instead is something like :!bash -c ". ~/.alias; gitlog"