Document git aliases support

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 4ce7867..570b691 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
        If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
        and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default.
 
+alias.*::
+       Command aliases for the gitlink: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, aliases that hide existing git commands are ignored.
+       Arguments are split at whitespaces, but single or double
+       quote pair can be used to quote them.
+
 apply.whitespace::
        Tells `git-apply` how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
        as the '--whitespace' option. See gitlink:git-apply[1].