Commander.js: Alias support for Git-style sub-commands

[wayneashleyberry]

Aliases don't seem to work _at all_ when using subcommands...

[SomeKittens]

Can you provide an example?

[wayneashleyberry]

// example.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

var app = require('commander')

app
  .version('1.0.0')
  .command('foo', '...').alias('f')
  .command('bar', '...').alias('b')
  .command('baz', '...').alias('bz')
  .parse(process.argv)

// example-foo.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

console.log('hello foo')

$ ./example.js foo // hello foo
$ ./example.js f // nothing...

[leesei]

It should be "Alias support for Git-style sub-commands".

[SpencerCDixon]

Any plans on adding this/would authors be open to a PR?

[zhiyelee]

PR is welcome!

[jontonsoup]

Did we determine if this is a bug or lack of feature? The label says bug, but the docs are unclear.

[hedgerh]

For anyone wondering, a fix for this has been merged into master, but the fix has not been published to npm.

In the meantime, I'm pointing my dependency to the repo:

"commander": "git+https://github.com/tj/commander.js.git"

[philostler]

+1 for releasing with this fix

[rt2zz]

@SomeKittens any chance we can get a new release?