[PATCH] Document git aliases support
- From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
- Date
- Jun 7, 2006, 18:43 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20060607184350.31338.46653.stgit@machine.or.cz>
This patch ports and modifies appropriately the git aliases documentation from my patch, shall it rest in peace.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> ---
Documentation/config.txt | 7 +++++++ Documentation/git.txt | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c861c6c..ad9ec3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -91,6 +91,13 @@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs:: If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default. +alias.*:: + Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. + after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation + "git last" is equivalent to "git cat-file commit HEAD". You cannot + override even existing command names with aliases. Arguments are + split by spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported. + apply.whitespace:: Tells `git-apply` how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the '--whitespace' option. See gitlink:git-apply[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 24ca55d..e474bdf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ link:everyday.html[Everyday Git] for a u "man git-commandname" for documentation of each command. CVS users may also want to read link:cvs-migration.html[CVS migration]. +The COMMAND is either a name of a Git command (see below) or an alias +as defined in the configuration file (see gitlink:git-repo-config[1]). + OPTIONS ------- --version::