From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:16:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: allow redirecting to help for aliased command
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Ac0TEpfHK6-pS_CMzGrYjmkaT_bM0V4kXfNxqY0TONtg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180926102636.30691-1-rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:29 PM Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
>
> 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.

While at there, maybe you could also mention the behavior of "git
help" when given an alias, in git-help.txt. And you could also add a
hint to suggest this new config help.followAlias there.
-- 
Duy