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authorSitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>2009-07-01 21:30:31 +0530
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-07-08 09:45:28 -0700
commit595b8dbfeefc2f1b0b47c4d2b947a1068bb37aeb (patch)
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parent653a31c16a0b83c11f00eb94ef49857ce8f2e37b (diff)
downloadgit-595b8dbfeefc2f1b0b47c4d2b947a1068bb37aeb.tar.gz
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.txt4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 5dcad94f84..c06eca43d7 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