From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:41:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: show manpage for aliased command on git <alias> --help
Message-ID: <vpqy5e17qak.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20130305165453.6077226c@pc09.procura.nl>

"H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> writes:

> A single word that is (already) known to git as being a valid command
> to do --help with. I which case I fully agree.

Just to insist on "that is known to git as being a valid command".

Compare:

$ git foo --help
`git foo' is aliased to `bar'

with

$ git foo --help
No manual entry for gitbar

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/