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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira•uka.de>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow 'git cmd -h' outside of repository
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:52:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080829115255.GD8000@neumann> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808291333010.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:35:02PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> You miss the fact that "git grep -h" does not mean "show usage".  Oh, and 
> "git ls-remote -h" neither.  Three times's a charm: "git show-ref -h" does 
> not show the help either.
you are right with grep and show-ref.  However, ls-remote does not
require a repository, so it would not be affected by this patch.

> I am also not quite certain if we should not just tout "git help <cmd>" as 
> the official way to request help.
Well, I would prefer to keep the short usage.

But anyway, having this inconsistency with the -h option across git
commands is bad.

Regards,
Gábor

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-29 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28 21:28 [PATCH] Allow 'git cmd -h' outside of repository SZEDER Gábor
2008-08-29 11:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-29 11:44   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-08-29 11:52   ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]

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