From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using '--help' for aliases
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:44:02 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1498072442.32360.20.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170621185518.nhnqlkbt63hdoate@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-21 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-21 18:41 Using '--help' for aliases Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-21 18:55 ` Jeff King
2017-06-21 19:14 ` Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]
2017-06-22 5:39 ` Samuel Lijin
2017-06-24 17:20 ` brian m. carlson
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