Is it possible to use a parameter within an alias command

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How to pass parameters to an alias?

As answered in Can less retain colored output? I want to use
git diff --color=always filename | less -r to get a colored output of my git diffs. Since I use this a lot it would be nice to set up an alias for this. But how to include the filename in this command?

I tried the following without success:

alias gdiff='git diff --color=always $1 | less -r'

Typing gdiff example.php displays the content of example.php with less but ignores the diff part.

Any ideas?

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Method 1

use a shell routine

gdiff() { 
   git diff --color=always "<a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b99df9">[email protected]</a>" | less -r
}

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