On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:11:29AM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > I am yet another user of 'git alias' (who wouldn't ?). It has become so > natural to me to use the aliased version that at some point of time I > tried the following, > > > $ git co --help > > `git co' is aliased to `checkout' > > That made me wonder. Git is able to inform the user that 'co' is > aliased to 'checkout' but isn't it possible for it to take one step > more to display help ? Just wondering if there were any reason for not > doing it.
It's possible to do if "co" is an alias for "checkout", but it works
less well when co is the following[0]:
co = "!f() { if git checkout -h | grep -qs recurse-submodules; \
then git checkout --recurse-submodules \"$@\"; \
else git checkout \"$@\" && git sui; \
fi; };f"
If this alias were to run on a Git with that option but without checkout
--recurse-submodules, then it would print help and then update
submodles, which isn't what I want.
[0] sui is an alias for submodule update --init.
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