docs: source creates a new local scope

Discussed in #4443.
fish-shell · Sep 17, 2019 · 2f6c8fb · 2f6c8fb
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@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ The return status of ``source`` is the return status of the last job to execute.
 
 ``.`` (a single period) is an alias for the ``source`` command. The use of ``.`` is deprecated in favour of ``source``, and ``.`` will be removed in a future version of fish.
 
+``source`` creates a new :ref:`local scope<variables-scope>`; ``set --local`` within a sourced block will not affect variables in the enclosing scope.
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