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git alias and --help

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GNGelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 27, 2011, 22:20 UTC
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I'm having a tiny question about git aliases.
in ~/.gitconfig I defined an alias
b = branch
This works well execp if I type
git b --help

Now I get the output `git b' is aliased to `branch'

which is nice to know however what I reall wanted is to get the helptext for the branch command.

Is there any trick to get the help text of git branch without having to type

git branch --help
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