From: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/3] git-help.txt: document "git help cmd" vs "git cmd --help" for aliases
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 13:59:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181009115909.16648-4-rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181009115909.16648-1-rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
This documents the existing behaviour of "git help cmd" when cmd is an
alias, as well as providing a hint to use the "git cmd --help" form to
be taken directly to the man page for the aliased command.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
---
Documentation/git-help.txt | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index 83d25d825a..86a6b42345 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ guide is brought up. The 'man' program is used by default for this
purpose, but this can be overridden by other options or configuration
variables.
+If an alias is given, git shows the definition of the alias on
+standard output. To get the manual page for the aliased command, use
+`git COMMAND --help`.
+
Note that `git --help ...` is identical to `git help ...` because the
former is internally converted into the latter.
--
2.19.1.4.g721af0fda3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-09 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-26 10:26 [PATCH] help: allow redirecting to help for aliased command Rasmus Villemoes
2018-09-26 14:37 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-26 15:19 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-28 7:44 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-09-26 15:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 18:09 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-26 18:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 15:16 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-26 15:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 18:12 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-28 7:53 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-09-26 18:49 ` Jeff King
2018-09-26 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-28 8:18 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-09-29 8:21 ` Jeff King
2018-09-29 17:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-30 4:27 ` Jeff King
2018-09-30 5:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-30 5:53 ` Jeff King
2018-09-28 7:40 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-09-28 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-01 11:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] help: redirect to aliased commands for "git cmd --help" Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-01 11:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] git.c: handle_alias: prepend alias info when first argument is -h Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-03 2:16 ` Jeff King
2018-10-01 11:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] git-help.txt: document "git help cmd" vs "git cmd --help" for aliases Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-03 2:18 ` Jeff King
2018-10-03 6:25 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-03 2:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] help: redirect to aliased commands for "git cmd --help" Jeff King
2018-10-03 6:24 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-03 7:06 ` Jeff King
2018-10-03 11:42 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] alias help tweaks Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-03 11:42 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] help: redirect to aliased commands for "git cmd --help" Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-05 8:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-05 10:22 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-05 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-03 11:42 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] git.c: handle_alias: prepend alias info when first argument is -h Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-03 11:42 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] git-help.txt: document "git help cmd" vs "git cmd --help" for aliases Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-04 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] alias help tweaks Jeff King
2018-10-09 11:59 ` [PATCH v4 " Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-09 11:59 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] help: redirect to aliased commands for "git cmd --help" Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-09 11:59 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] git.c: handle_alias: prepend alias info when first argument is -h Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-09 11:59 ` Rasmus Villemoes [this message]
2018-10-12 3:17 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] alias help tweaks Junio C Hamano
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