2011/10/29 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > $ git lgf --help > 'git lgf' is aliased to 'log --oneline --boundary --first-parent' > > with "git log --help", but that is aiming too low for my taste. > > If you are redesigning the help system, isn't it a shame that you are > discarding other tokens in the alias when giving help? Wouldn't it be > wonderful if you extracted the option descriptions for these three options > specified and showing only that, for example? I think that would be the wrong thing in most cases though: an alias like the above happily allows the user to specify other git-log options on the command line; when I get help on an aliased option, it's often precisely because I want to see the _other_ options I can use... E.g., I have: $ git slog --help `git slog' is aliased to `log --date=short --pretty=tformat:"%h %ad %s" --abbrev-commit' But the typical question I want to answer is something like "OK, how do I reverse the output order of slog?" or "how do I limit the output of slog to a certain date range?" -miles -- Cat is power. Cat is peace. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html