Aliases that invoke shell commands start from the top-level directory,
but this was not documented.
Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <redacted>
---
Documentation/config.txt | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 2fecbe3..bf97e1d 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -456,7 +456,9 @@ 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".
+"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.
apply.whitespace::
Tells 'git-apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
--
1.6.3.3