Re: [PATCH 3/3] help: respect aliases

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2008, 02:10 UTC
Message-ID: <76718490802241810m5f473156nc350eea07016e8f9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080224221737.GD31309@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> If we have an alias "foo" defined, then the help text for
>  "foo" (via "git help foo" or "git foo --help") now shows the
>  definition of the alias.

Heh, now I can kill this alias of mine:

    h          = "!sh -c 'git alias \"$1\" || git help \"$1\"' -"

:-)

This too would be less ugly as a built-in:

    alias      = "! sh -c 'if test -z \"$1\"; then git config --list \
                  | expand \
                  | sed \"/^alias\\./!d; s/^alias\\.//; s/=/ /; s/  */ /g\" \
                  | sort | while read n v; do \
                  printf \"%-16s\" \"$n\"; echo \"$v\" | gnused \
                  \"s/\\(.\\{68\\}\\) /\\1\\n\t\t/g\" | expand; \
                  done; else git config \"alias.$1\"; fi' -"
:-)

j.