Re: [PATCH] help: show manpage for aliased command on git <alias> --help

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2013, 16:16 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8v61vn3h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1362494681-11419-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> Change the semantics of "git <alias> --help" to show the help for the
> command <alias> is aliased to, instead of just saying:
>
>     `git <alias>' is aliased to `<whatever>'
>
> E.g. if you have "checkout" aliased to "co" you won't get:
>
>     $ git co --help
>     `git co' is aliased to `checkout'

If you had "lg" aliased to "log --oneline" and you made

    $ git lg --help

to give anything but

    'git lg' is aliased to `log --oneline'

I would say that is a grave regression.