From: Sitaram Chamarty Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:00:31 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: update description of shell aliases Message-ID: <2e24e5b90907010900r23ddc8dfl67dee569b508a4b7@mail.gmail.com> Aliases that invoke shell commands start from the top-level directory, but this was not documented. Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty --- Documentation/config.txt | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 2fecbe3..bf97e1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -456,7 +456,9 @@ 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 -- 1.6.3.3