Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update description of shell aliases

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jul 2, 2009, 07:21 UTC
Message-ID: <4A4C5FFB.90302@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <2e24e5b90907011757r498b8c52v4cf5dfb7016bf8b5@mail.gmail.com>

Sitaram Chamarty wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Aliases that invoke shell commands start from the top-level directory,
>>> but this was not documented.
>> Could you please also think if it is worth mentioning what happens when
>> you do not even have a top-level directory?  I.e. in a bare repository.
> 
> Yes I thought about it.  I decided not to add that because
> it is:
> 
>   - not common enough (how many new users fiddle in bare
>     repos?)
>

I do that quite a lot, but I can't recall ever using an alias in a bare repo. It would be odd if I did, as the only alias I've got is this:

   alias.wsfix=!git diff HEAD >P.diff && git reset --hard HEAD && git apply --whitespace=fix P.diff && rm -f P.diff

which isn't always doing the right thing even in a non-bare repository, and never in a bare one.

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