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In almost all places where the CLI/deps reference uses :aliases it means the literal key :aliases in the deps.edn file.

In two places -- -X[:aliases] and -M[:aliases] -- it means instead a list of aliases.

I think removing the : in those two cases would be more consistent with the other uses of the word "aliases" in the text (as opposed to the _keyword :aliases).

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Seems reasonable. That's actually pulled from clj -h though so need to consider how to sync those up. clj man page uses slightly different syntax like -X[:alias...].

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Since most places refer to aliases as having keyword syntax, e.g., :foo, I think plain aliases makes more sense than either :aliases or :alias... so maybe standardize all three things on just plain aliases?
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I've updated the doc and the helps for next release.
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Thanks! First glance over the updated help and docs all looks good!
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