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| author | Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> | 2018-10-09 13:59:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-10-11 10:21:44 +0900 |
| commit | 912104770d1b3b009a58e95ae57f6db65791b031 (patch) | |
| tree | 999db0780bd75db36cbc030066d098bdf6a6ce36 /Documentation/git-help.txt | |
| parent | a9a60b94ccda5ff25faf51f39faeac11cac68346 (diff) | |
| download | git-912104770d1b3b009a58e95ae57f6db65791b031.tar.gz | |
git-help.txt: document "git help cmd" vs "git cmd --help" for aliases
This documents the existing behaviour of "git help cmd" when cmd is an
alias, as well as providing a hint to use the "git cmd --help" form to
be taken directly to the man page for the aliased command.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-help.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-help.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index 83d25d825a..86a6b42345 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ guide is brought up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose, but this can be overridden by other options or configuration variables. +If an alias is given, git shows the definition of the alias on +standard output. To get the manual page for the aliased command, use +`git COMMAND --help`. + Note that `git --help ...` is identical to `git help ...` because the former is internally converted into the latter. |