From 4514ad4fb77b3c68f69133c22b9c0d3b88ff058f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Baudis Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:43:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document git aliases support This patch ports and modifies appropriately the git aliases documentation from my patch, shall it rest in peace. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 8 ++++++++ Documentation/git.txt | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 4ce78679fe..570b691ba1 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs:: If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default. +alias.*:: + Command aliases for the gitlink: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, aliases that hide existing git commands are ignored. + Arguments are split at whitespaces, but single or double + quote pair can be used to quote them. + apply.whitespace:: Tells `git-apply` how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the '--whitespace' option. See gitlink:git-apply[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 61331ab121..d4472b56d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ link:everyday.html[Everyday Git] for a useful minimum set of commands, and "man git-commandname" for documentation of each command. CVS users may also want to read link:cvs-migration.html[CVS migration]. +The COMMAND is either a name of a Git command (see below) or an alias +as defined in the configuration file (see gitlink:git-repo-config[1]). + OPTIONS ------- --version:: -- 2.11.4.GIT