changeset 14891:62122c1c830b

alias: note interaction of shell aliases with early opts in help
author Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
date Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:57:22 -0500
parents 28abca72c46c
children 01e0091679c0
files mercurial/help/config.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt	Mon Jul 18 14:53:52 2011 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt	Mon Jul 18 14:57:22 2011 -0500
@@ -223,6 +223,10 @@
 ``$HG_ARGS`` expand to the arguments given to Mercurial. In the ``hg
 echo foo`` call above, ``$HG_ARGS`` would expand to ``echo foo``.
 
+.. note:: Some global configuration options such as ``-R`` are
+   processed before shell aliases and will thus not be passed to
+   aliases.
+
 ``auth``
 """"""""