From: Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git alias and --help
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:23:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j8f30u$ghe$2@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m362j95jv3.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
On 10/28/2011 03:26 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-28 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-27 22:20 git alias and --help Gelonida N
2011-10-27 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-27 22:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-28 0:24 ` Gelonida N
2011-10-28 1:51 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-28 4:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-28 9:00 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-10-28 9:17 ` Gelonida N
2011-10-28 13:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-28 20:21 ` Gelonida N
2011-10-28 13:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-28 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-28 18:25 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-28 20:23 ` Gelonida N [this message]
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