[PATCH] help: show help for aliases
From: Tom Kunze <hidden>
Date: 2017-02-10 01:33:21
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: Tom Kunze <hidden>
Date: 2017-02-10 01:33:21
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
If an alias is a single git command show the man page of the aliased git command with --help. Signed-off-by: Tom Kunze <redacted> --- Hi, I noticed that when I pass --help to an alias which is only a git command it tells me a information about the alias. But it would be nice if it instead opens the corresponding man page of the command. There is a memory leak but in my opinion it can be ignored because the process will be replaced anyway. Regards, Tom Kunze PS: Please add me to cc as I am not subscribed. builtin/help.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index 49f7a07..655ed49 100644
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c@@ -437,6 +437,10 @@ static const char *check_git_cmd(const char* cmd) alias = alias_lookup(cmd); if (alias) { + if (alias[0] != '!') { + strtok(alias, " \t\n"); + return alias; + } printf_ln(_("`git %s' is aliased to `%s'"), cmd, alias); free(alias); exit(0);
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