Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] alias help tweaks
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From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2018-10-12 03:17:42
Rasmus Villemoes [off-list ref] writes:
v2: Added patches 2 and 3, made "git cmd --help" unconditionally (no config option, no delay) redirect to the aliased command's help, preserve pre-existing behaviour of the spelling "git help cmd". v3: Add some additional comments in patch 1 and avoid triggering leak checker reports. Use better wording in patch 3. v4: Reword commit log in patch 1.
Sorry for failing to point it out and let the style carried over to v4, but the above is insufficient for a cover latter. Those who missed an earlier round has no clue what these patches are about, and there is not even a pointer to find an earlier discussion in the list archive. I think the patches are good with the rounds of reviews it went through, so let's merge it to 'next'. Here is what I plan to start the merge message of the series: "git cmd --help" when "cmd" is aliased used to only say "cmd is aliased to ...". Now it shows that to the standard error stream and runs "git $cmd --help" where $cmd is the first word of the alias expansion. Please do the cover-letter better next time. Thanks.
Rasmus Villemoes (3): help: redirect to aliased commands for "git cmd --help" git.c: handle_alias: prepend alias info when first argument is -h git-help.txt: document "git help cmd" vs "git cmd --help" for aliases Documentation/git-help.txt | 4 ++++ builtin/help.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- git.c | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)