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Documentation: alias: rework notes into points

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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>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Ian Wienand
2024-05-27 10:30:47 +10:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -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:
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* 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].