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| author | Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> | 2009-07-01 21:30:31 +0530 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-07-08 09:45:28 -0700 |
| commit | 595b8dbfeefc2f1b0b47c4d2b947a1068bb37aeb (patch) | |
| tree | af064e6a1b45511ebafe6de483d7e5d0f74659b5 | |
| parent | 653a31c16a0b83c11f00eb94ef49857ce8f2e37b (diff) | |
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Documentation: update description of shell aliases
Aliases that invoke shell commands start from the top-level directory,
but this was not documented.
Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 5dcad94f8..c06eca43d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -451,7 +451,9 @@ If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining "alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command -"gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". +"gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note that shell commands will be +executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may +not necessarily be the current directory. apply.whitespace:: Tells 'git-apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way |