Can we have alias subcommands - or commands with spaces in them (and without 'quotes'), that resolve to a top level command?

[danielyrovas]

I'm writing a CLI app (using derive) and attempting to make calling a specific command easier. Users may use any of the following:

clap_cli run <other args>
clap_cli alias run <other args>
clap_cli also_alias run <other args>

I want all of these to result in the same top-level run command, is there an easy way to achieve this?

for context here are my structs/enums so far

#[derive(Parser)]
#[command(version, about, long_about = None, arg_required_else_help(true))]
pub struct Cli {
    #[command(subcommand)]
    pub command: Option<Commands>,
}
#[derive(Subcommand)]
pub enum Commands {
   Run {},
}

and then I parse and match on cli.command.

[epage]

We had a replace feature to support this but it ran into issues, see #1603. I hadn't re-opened the original request (#1603), so I did so.

For me, one big question that would need to be answered is why not just add those subcommands to the parent command like we do for git stash in https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/_derive/_cookbook/git_derive/index.html