Re: [PATCH] git: show alias info only with lone -h

> > I guess one way to deal with it would be if the user runs "foo -h", and
> > alias.foo is "bar --other arguments", then we run just "bar -h",
> > dropping the extra arguments provided by the alias.
> 
> It is much simpler and saner to just stop after giving the alias
> expansion, isn't it?  Nobody can get hurt if we did so; doing
> anything else would be driving us into further corner cases that
> would either confuse or harm the users.

> > I'd also be happy if on top we did:
> >
> >   1. When alias.foo="bar --options", turn "git foo -h" into "git bar
> >      -h", dropping "--options".
> 
> This smells like piling more voodoo magic on top, which I am not
> enthused.
> 
> >   2. When alias.foo="!bar", report only the alias and do not run "bar"
> >      at all. The collateral damage here would be:
> >
> >         !git bar $(some_shell_magic_we_need)
> >
> >      but IMHO that is not all that bad. If we report the alias content,
> >      the user can probably figure out which "git help" to run next.
> 
> This I very much like, and further, I would prefer to do this for
> all aliases.