diff -r fabbf9310025 -r fa88170c10bb mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Fri Oct 12 18:06:32 2018 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Fri Oct 12 18:49:11 2018 +0200
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
     return newlyaddedandmodifiedfiles
 
 def parsealiases(cmd):
-    return cmd.lstrip("^").split("|")
+    return cmd.split("|")
 
 def setupwrapcolorwrite(ui):
     # wrap ui.write so diff output can be labeled/colorized
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@
     debugchoice = {}
 
     if cmd in table:
-        # short-circuit exact matches, "log" alias beats "^log|history"
+        # short-circuit exact matches, "log" alias beats "log|history"
         keys = [cmd]
     else:
         keys = table.keys()