Re: [PATCH] help: allow redirecting to help for aliased command

>
> I often use 'git <cmd> --help' as a quick way to get the documentation
> for a command. However, I've also trained my muscle memory to use my
> aliases (cp=cherry-pick, co=checkout etc.), which means that I often end
> up doing
>
>   git cp --help
>
> to which git correctly informs me that cp is an alias for
> cherry-pick. However, I already knew that, and what I really wanted was
> the man page for the cherry-pick command.
>
> This introduces a help.followAlias config option that transparently
> redirects to (the first word of) the alias text (provided of course it
> is not a shell command), similar to the option for autocorrect of
> misspelled commands.
>
> The documentation in config.txt could probably be improved.