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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/alias.txt | 11 |
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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]. |