From: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] git-help.txt: document "git help cmd" vs "git cmd --help" for aliases
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 08:25:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5d0e881-d4b5-16e8-13df-46f9cb81f9c4@rasmusvillemoes.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181003021816.GC20553@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 2018-10-03 04:18, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 01:21:07PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>
>>
>> +If an alias is given, git prints a note explaining what it is an alias
>> +for on standard output. To get the manual page for the aliased
>> +command, use `git COMMAND --help`.
>
> Funny English: "what it is an...". Maybe:
>
> If an alias is given, git shows the definition of the alias on
> standard output. To get the manual page...
Much better, thanks.
Rasmus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-03 6:25 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 [this message]
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 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] git-help.txt: document "git help cmd" vs "git cmd --help" for aliases Rasmus Villemoes
2018-10-12 3:17 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] alias help tweaks Junio C Hamano
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