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Re: git alias and --help

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 28, 2011, 04:05 UTC
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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> Of course, that would be the wrong thing for somebody that just wants
> to be reminded what an alias expands too, but my intuition is that
> this is a very tiny minority compared to people that want to examine
> the options for the underlying command...

And it is doubly wrong if help backend is configured to be anything but manpages, no?

As I said, you should be able to come up with a patch that detects and special cases the no frills case (replacement to single token) to get what you want.

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