diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 03eef4091d..a04c5adf8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -95,9 +95,10 @@ 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. + 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. + quote pair and a backslash can be used to quote them. apply.whitespace:: Tells `git-apply` how to handle whitespaces, in the same way |