On 10/28/2011 03:26 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Miles Bader <miles@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>>>> git branch --help >>>> >>>> How about "git help branch"? >>> >>> The reason why we do not do what you seem to be suggesting is because >>> giving the same behaviour to "git b --help" as "git branch --help" is >>> wrong. >> >> I agree with Gelonida's followup: although what you say makes sense, >> it's still pretty annoying behavior for the very common case of a >> simple renaming alias... >> >> E.g., I have "co" aliased to "checkout", and so my fingers are very >> very inclined to say "co" when I mean checkout... including when >> asking for help. I actually end up typing "git co --help", grumbling, >> and retyping with the full command name, quite reguarly. >> >> What I've often wished is that git's help system would output >> something like: >> >> $ git help co >> `git co' is aliased to `checkout' >> >> Here's the help entry for `checkout': >> >> GIT-CHECKOUT(1) Git Manual GIT-CHECKOUT(1) > > Wouldn't it be more useful to say something like this: > > $ git co --help > `git co' is aliased to `checkout' > > You can see help entry for `checkout' with "git checkout --help" > > Then help is only copy'n'paste away. > > (This helping text probably should be controlled by some advice.* > config variable). This is definitely an option and something which I suggested as one option myself (however my example had a typo and was perhaps therefore not understandable) -- 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