@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ 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`. 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`
-from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+`gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD`. Note:
++
+* 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`
+ from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
There are a number of caveats when using aliases. Rather than stuffing them all together in a paragraph, let's separate them out into individual points to make it clearer what's going on. Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com> --- Documentation/config/alias.txt | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)