Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 28.10.2011 06:05:
> Miles Bader <miles@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> 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
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