| 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. 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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]. |
