Re: [PATCH] show help message also for aliased commands

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2010, 02:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7v635vwatn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1266456562-88841-1-git-send-email-patrick.sudowe@rwth-aachen.de>

Patrick Sudowe <patrick.sudowe@rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> git help 'alias' currently only shows the actual git command
> 'alias' refers to. This patch changes the behavior so that
> the help for the actual git command is shown.

I somehow think this is a horrible change.

I have "[alias] lg = log --oneline --no-merges" and I do appreciate that it tells the expansion, because I also have other similar ones like "[alias] lgm = log --notes-ref=amlog", "lgf", etc.

I don't want the expansion to be erased by manual page of "log"; typically the output from man is piped to less(1).

Besides, I may not know what "log" does, but at least I studied what options it takes when coming up with the hardcoded leading options already. I don't want to see the manual page of "log" by default when I ask git about "lg". If git tells me "lg" expands to "log --oneline", and I do not remember what other options "log" takes, I'll ask git myself about "log", not "lg".