From: Petr Baudis Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:43:50 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Document git aliases support X-Git-Tag: v1.4.0-rc2~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4514ad4fb77b3c68f69133c22b9c0d3b88ff058f;p=git.git 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 --- diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 4ce78679f..570b691ba 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 61331ab12..d4472b56d 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::