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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-10-26 15:37:13 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-10-26 15:37:13 +0900
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@@ -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.