On 2018-09-26 20:12, Taylor Blau wrote: > > In the case where you are scripting (and want to know what 'git co' > means for programmatic usage), I think that there are two options. One, > which you note above, is the 'git -c help.followAlias=false ...' > approach, which I don't think is so bad for callers, given the tradeoff. > > Another way to go is 'git config alias.co', which should provide the > same answer. I think that either would be fine.
The latter seems much more robust, since that will also tell you precisely whether co is an alias at all, and you don't have to parse -h/--help output (stripping out the 'is aliased to...' stuff, which might be complicated by i18n etc. etc.). So I don't think we should worry too much about scripted use of -h/--help. Rasmus
