alias command line help
@@ -999,7 +999,11 @@ class Command(object):
return
def alias(self, *args):
- """ Creates and exports an 'alias package recipe'.
+ """Creates and exports an 'alias package recipe'. An "alias" package is a
+ symbolic name (reference) for another package (target). When some
+ package depends on an alias, the target one will be retrieved and used
+ instead, so the alias reference, the symbolic name, does not appear
+ in the final dependency graph.
"""
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=self.alias.__doc__,
prog="conan alias")
