On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:29 PM Rasmus Villemoes <rv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I often use 'git <cmd> --help' as a quick way to get the documentation > for a command. However, I've also trained my muscle memory to use my > aliases (cp=cherry-pick, co=checkout etc.), which means that I often end > up doing > > git cp --help > > to which git correctly informs me that cp is an alias for > cherry-pick. However, I already knew that, and what I really wanted was > the man page for the cherry-pick command. > > This introduces a help.followAlias config option that transparently > redirects to (the first word of) the alias text (provided of course it > is not a shell command), similar to the option for autocorrect of > misspelled commands. > > The documentation in config.txt could probably be improved. While at there, maybe you could also mention the behavior of "git help" when given an alias, in git-help.txt. And you could also add a hint to suggest this new config help.followAlias there. -- Duy
