wt-status.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index

diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index d83dac283996e59b2012ed3e17f0271f93204212..7739a5c1551426fd2302aaf5daa10e454d174195 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c
@@ -415,9 +415,37 @@ static const char *check_git_cmd(const char* cmd)
 
        alias = alias_lookup(cmd);
        if (alias) {
-               printf_ln(_("'%s' is aliased to '%s'"), cmd, alias);
-               free(alias);
-               exit(0);
+               const char **argv;
+               int count;
+
+               /*
+                * handle_builtin() in git.c rewrites "git cmd --help"
+                * to "git help --exclude-guides cmd", so we can use
+                * exclude_guides to distinguish "git cmd --help" from
+                * "git help cmd". In the latter case, or if cmd is an
+                * alias for a shell command, just print the alias
+                * definition.
+                */
+               if (!exclude_guides || alias[0] == '!') {
+                       printf_ln(_("'%s' is aliased to '%s'"), cmd, alias);
+                       free(alias);
+                       exit(0);
+               }
+               /*
+                * Otherwise, we pretend that the command was "git
+                * word0 --help". We use split_cmdline() to get the
+                * first word of the alias, to ensure that we use the
+                * same rules as when the alias is actually
+                * used. split_cmdline() modifies alias in-place.
+                */
+               fprintf_ln(stderr, _("'%s' is aliased to '%s'"), cmd, alias);
+               count = split_cmdline(alias, &argv);
+               if (count < 0)
+                       die(_("bad alias.%s string: %s"), cmd,
+                           split_cmdline_strerror(count));
+               free(argv);
+               UNLEAK(alias);
+               return alias;
        }
 
        if (exclude_guides)