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diff --git a/Documentation/config/alias.txt b/Documentation/config/alias.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f1ca739d5742 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/alias.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +alias.*:: + Command aliases for the linkgit: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`. To avoid + confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that + hide existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by + spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported. + A quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them. ++ +Note that the first word of an alias does not necessarily have to be a +command. It can be a command-line option that will be passed into the +invocation of `git`. In particular, this is useful when used with `-c` +to pass in one-time configurations or `-p` to force pagination. For example, +`loud-rebase = -c commit.verbose=true rebase` can be defined such that +running `git loud-rebase` would be equivalent to +`git -c commit.verbose=true rebase`. Also, `ps = -p status` would be a +helpful alias since `git ps` would paginate the output of `git status` +where the original command does not. ++ +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]. |