[PATCH v7 1/3] Documentation: alias: rework notes into points

Ian Wienand
2024-05-27T00:32:19Z

There are a number of caveats when using aliases. Rather than
stuffing them all together in a paragraph, let's separate them out
into individual points to make it clearer what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/config/alias.txt | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config/alias.txt b/Documentation/config/alias.txt
index 01df96fab3..40851ef429 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/alias.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/alias.txt
@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ 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`. Note that shell commands will be
-executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
-not necessarily be the current directory.
-`GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running `git rev-parse --show-prefix`
-from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+`gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD`. Note:
++
+* Shell commands will be executed from the top-level directory of a
+ repository, which may not necessarily be the current directory.
+* `GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running `git rev-parse --show-prefix`
+ from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
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2.45.1