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Documentation: update description of shell aliases

Aliases that invoke shell commands start from the top-level directory,
but this was not documented.

Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Sitaram Chamarty 16 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -451,7 +451,9 @@ If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, @@ -451,7 +451,9 @@ 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".
"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.

apply.whitespace::
Tells 'git-apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way

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