Re: git glossary --help ?

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Apr 6, 2019, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <0bbe60e7-15ce-775c-bfcb-d2c660361e80@iee.org>
In-Reply-To: <87v9zr57kl.fsf@igel.home>

Hi Andreas,

On 06/04/2019 19:09, Andreas Schwab wrote:

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> On Apr 06 2019, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
>
>> Following the discussions about the tag peeling issue, I thought to have a
>> look at what the git glossary says.
>>
>> I had it in my head that when the git guides were linked to the help
>> system, that the --help option provided a short circuit direct to help
>> item. However this did not happen.
> $ git help glossary
>
> Andreas.
>

Thanks. I was aware of that form, but as I remember it, as part of the 'git' command processing, there was an immediate shortcut if --help was an option, that would essentially re-write the cli as 'git help command', such that 'git foo --help' would become 'git help foo' and the help system would then provide the right long form help, including the guides and <concepts> docs (excepting the user-manual, which is unfortunate, but ..)

My question was whether the older systems did that re-write as described, should someone have one immediately to hand. Philip