FABRE Laurent

To get the meaning of a single alias 'git help <alias>' does also the job.
Example:

>> git help br

'git br' is aliased to 'branch'

Is this portable and compliant with all C norms/flavors?

An alternative is to let Emacs started up all the time (for me it's not a constraint as I do almost all my work inside anyway) and map the emacs command to "emacsclient" , as Emacs supports a server/client operation mode (EDITOR=emacsclient in your .bashrc, for example).

I like the way Ruby makes this kind of magic a piece of cake... Thanks for the tip! It becomes easy to add new states without having to add the corresponding methods by hand.