Re: `git stash --help` tries to pull up nonexistent file gitstack.html

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Joseph Musser <me@jnm2.com> wrote:
>> Oh, I'm embarrassed. The typo was mine, I must have typed `git stack
>> --help`. I would have expected a syntax error message or "did you
>> mean" suggestions; it didn't even enter my mind that it would look up
>> whatever I typed before --help and assume it existed on disk.
>
> I actually think you found an interesting (albeit minor) bug.
> I think whenever "git" sees any word followed by "--help" and nothing else,
> it blindly turns it into "git help" followed by that word. I think it
> is reasonable
> to expect that "git foo --help" responds with "foo: no such subcommand",
> instead of "No manual entry for gitfoo".
>
> It may not be too hard to arrange; this might be another low-hanging
> fruit if somebody wants to try a patch ;-)
>