Re: Using '--help' for aliases

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 21, 2017, 19:14 UTC
Message-ID: <1498072442.32360.20.camel@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170621185518.nhnqlkbt63hdoate@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 14:55 -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> It could do that. I think we even discussed it at one point,
> but I
> didn't dig up the thread. However, you have the problem that running
> "man checkout" is likely to clobber the mention of the alias. So the
> question is whether it is more important to tell the user that it's
> an
> alias (and which options the alias is using!),

Now, that's something I didn't think of. Does seem to quite an issue as aliases accept argument this.

I seem to be getting the idea of '--help' just now. All these days, I was actually considering it to be another way of getting to the man page of a command. Have to play with it a little to see in what other ways '--help' could help me! In case there's anything that's so useful about it that I'm missing, let me know.

>  or to show them the
> referred command's manpage.
> 
> -Peff

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Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>