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From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] help: respect aliases
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:10:00 -0500
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> If we have an alias "foo" defined, then the help text for
>  "foo" (via "git help foo" or "git foo --help") now shows the
>  definition of the alias.

Heh, now I can kill this alias of mine:

    h          = "!sh -c 'git alias \"$1\" || git help \"$1\"' -"

:-)

This too would be less ugly as a built-in:

    alias      = "! sh -c 'if test -z \"$1\"; then git config --list \
                  | expand \
                  | sed \"/^alias\\./!d; s/^alias\\.//; s/=/ /; s/  */ /g\" \
                  | sort | while read n v; do \
                  printf \"%-16s\" \"$n\"; echo \"$v\" | gnused \
                  \"s/\\(.\\{68\\}\\) /\\1\\n\t\t/g\" | expand; \
                  done; else git config \"alias.$1\"; fi' -"
:-)

j.