Subject: Re: git alias and --help

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:27:27 -0700 (PDT)

Gelonida N <[email-masked]> writes:

[...]

> Another small detail:
> 
> Let's assume I have following alias:
> 
> log = log --name-status
> 
> 
> In this case I directly get the help text for git log
> if I typed 'git log --help' (or 'git help log').
> I don't even see, that my log is in reality aliased.

That is because it doesn't work: git does not allow for aliasing its
built-in commands.

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Jakub Narębski