--- a/doc/hgrc.5.txt Mon May 09 10:52:08 2011 +0200
+++ b/doc/hgrc.5.txt Mon May 09 11:01:45 2011 +0200
@@ -181,7 +181,11 @@
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Defines command aliases.
Aliases allow you to define your own commands in terms of other
-commands (or aliases), optionally including arguments.
+commands (or aliases), optionally including arguments. Positional
+arguments in the form of ``$1``, ``$2``, etc in the alias definition
+are expanded by Mercurial before execution. Positional arguments not
+already used by ``$N`` in the definition are put at the end of the
+command to be executed.
Alias definitions consist of lines of the form::