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diff --git a/Documentation/config/alias.adoc b/Documentation/config/alias.adoc index 80ce17d2de..115fdbb1e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/alias.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/alias.adoc @@ -1,12 +1,46 @@ 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 - confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that - hide existing Git commands are ignored except for deprecated - commands. Arguments are split by - spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping are supported. - A quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them. +alias.*.command:: + Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper. Aliases + can be defined using two syntaxes: ++ +-- +1. Without a subsection, e.g., `[alias] co = checkout`. The alias + name ("co" in this example) is + limited to ASCII alphanumeric characters and `-`, + and is matched case-insensitively. +2. With a subsection, e.g., `[alias "co"] command = checkout`. The + alias name can contain any characters (except for newlines and NUL bytes), + including UTF-8, and is matched case-sensitively as raw bytes. + You define the action of the alias in the `command`. +-- ++ +Examples: ++ +---- +# Without subsection (ASCII alphanumeric and dash only) +[alias] + co = checkout + st = status + +# With subsection (allows any characters, including UTF-8) +[alias "hämta"] + command = fetch +[alias "rätta till"] + command = commit --amend +---- ++ +With a Git alias defined, e.g., + + $ git config --global alias.last "cat-file commit HEAD" + # Which is equivalent to + $ git config --global alias.last.command "cat-file commit HEAD" + +`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 except for deprecated +commands. Arguments are split by +spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping are 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 |