From 75c7d4ca8d84dd81aff185172046290e8e8ba7fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Sudowe <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:09:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] help: show help message also for aliased commands

git help <alias> currently only shows the actual git command
<alias> refers to. This patch changes the behavior so that
the help for the actual git command is shown. The user usually
knows the aliases defined, and sometimes its just more convenient
to type something like git help co than git help checkout
to find out about the rarely used option.
---
 builtin-help.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-help.c b/builtin-help.c
index 3182a2b..4d8906d 100644
--- a/builtin-help.c
+++ b/builtin-help.c
@@ -416,6 +416,7 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	int nongit;
 	const char *alias;
+	const char *cmd;
 	enum help_format parsed_help_format;
 	load_command_list("git-", &main_cmds, &other_cmds);

@@ -446,19 +447,22 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	alias = alias_lookup(argv[0]);
 	if (alias && !is_git_command(argv[0])) {
 		printf("`git %s' is aliased to `%s'\n", argv[0], alias);
-		return 0;
+		cmd = alias;
+	} else {
+		cmd = argv[0];
 	}

+
 	switch (help_format) {
 	case HELP_FORMAT_NONE:
 	case HELP_FORMAT_MAN:
-		show_man_page(argv[0]);
+		show_man_page(cmd);
 		break;
 	case HELP_FORMAT_INFO:
-		show_info_page(argv[0]);
+		show_info_page(cmd);
 		break;
 	case HELP_FORMAT_WEB:
-		show_html_page(argv[0]);
+		show_html_page(cmd);
 		break;
 	}

--
1.7.0