On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 14:55 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > It could do that. I think we even discussed it at one point, > but I > didn't dig up the thread. However, you have the problem that running > "man checkout" is likely to clobber the mention of the alias. So the > question is whether it is more important to tell the user that it's > an > alias (and which options the alias is using!), Now, that's something I didn't think of. Does seem to quite an issue as aliases accept argument this. I seem to be getting the idea of '--help' just now. All these days, I was actually considering it to be another way of getting to the man page of a command. Have to play with it a little to see in what other ways '--help' could help me! In case there's anything that's so useful about it that I'm missing, let me know. > or to show them the > referred command's manpage. > > -Peff -- Regards, Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@xxxxxxxxx>
