From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: update description of shell aliases
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:30:31 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e24e5b90907010900r23ddc8dfl67dee569b508a4b7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Aliases that invoke shell commands start from the top-level directory,
but this was not documented.
Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
---
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
next reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-01 16:00 Sitaram Chamarty [this message]
2009-07-01 18:21 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update description of shell aliases Junio C Hamano
2009-07-02 0:57 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-07-02 7:21 ` Andreas Ericsson
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