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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/alias.txt | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/gpg.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/alias.txt b/Documentation/config/alias.txt index 0b14178314..f1ca739d57 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/alias.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/alias.txt @@ -1,18 +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 + 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 +`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' +`GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running `git rev-parse --show-prefix` from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt index f999f8ea49..cce2c89245 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ gpg.program:: Use this custom program instead of "`gpg`" found on `$PATH` when making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached - signature, "`gpg --verify $file - <$signature`" is run, and the + signature, "`gpg --verify $signature - <$file`" is run, and the program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the standard input of "`gpg -bsau $key`" is fed with the contents to be |