Re: git alias and --help

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 28.10.2011 06:05:

Miles Bader [off-list ref] writes:

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Of course, that would be the wrong thing for somebody that just wants
to be reminded what an alias expands too, but my intuition is that
this is a very tiny minority compared to people that want to examine
the options for the underlying command...

And it is doubly wrong if help backend is configured to be anything but
manpages, no?

As I said, you should be able to come up with a patch that detects and
special cases the no frills case (replacement to single token) to get what
you want.

But "help" is still too much to type for the OP ;) How about this in
your config:

[alias]
	h = help
	hh = "!sh -c 'a=$(git config --get alias.$1); : ${a:=$1}; git help
${a%% *}' -"

Ugly as hell, I know, and works only for aliases whose first word is the
name of a git command, as well as for non-aliases. Catching "!command"
type aliases is left as an exercise to the reader.

Michael