pretty: add aliases for pretty formats

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 92f851e797ca820f6f6126391eafee0d4eec7e26..b41f39de7ce77e288e21676c3f15e832f36800c7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1466,6 +1466,16 @@ pager.<cmd>::
        it takes precedence over this option.  To disable pagination for
        all commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`.
 
+pretty.<name>::
+       Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in
+       linkgit:git-log[1]. Any aliases defined here can be used just
+       as the built-in pretty formats could. For example,
+       running `git config pretty.changelog "format:{asterisk} %H %s"`
+       would cause the invocation `git log --pretty=changelog`
+       to be equivalent to running `git log "--pretty=format:{asterisk} %H %s"`.
+       Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format
+       will be silently ignored.
+
 pull.octopus::
        The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
        at once.