김남형 <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx> writes: > 2012-03-15 3:00 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Namhyung Kim<namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> The --follow-alias option will look up the alias definitions and >>> use the first word as a command. For example, if I set my aliases >>> as follows: >>> >>> $ git help br >>> `git br' is aliased to `git branch' >>> $ git help ru >>> `git ru' is aliased to `git remote update' >>> >>> adding --follow-alias (or -f) option will show man pages of >>> git-branch and git-remote, respectively. >> >> What would happen when somebody has this? >> >> [alias] >> br = branch --list >> >> $ git help --follow-alias br >> ... man page for git-branch is shown ... >> >> NAK. > > I'm sorry I don't understand what you meant by this. What should be > happened for this? You _somehow_ restict the output, or at least draw the user's attention, to the description of --list mode in the resulting "git-branch" manual. I do not think that is feasible. But showing the whole manual page, without telling the user that "br" is not aliased to a plain vanilla "branch" without any option, is not a solution, especially if you are going to let the user set a configuration variable to allow him to forget about this setting. Progressive revelation would not have such a downside and I think it is more appropriate approach for something like "help". -- 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