From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:05:57 GMT Subject: Re: git alias and --help Message-ID: <7vvcr9wyje.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Miles Bader 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.