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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git help: promote 'git help -av'
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:19:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180924181927.GB25341@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180922174707.16498-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 07:47:07PM +0200, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> When you type "git help" (or just "git") you are greeted with a list
> with commonly used commands and their short description and are
> suggested to use "git help -a" or "git help -g" for more details.
> 
> "git help -av" would be more friendly and inline with what is shown
> with "git help" since it shows list of commands with description as
> well, and commands are properly grouped.

I agree that "help -av" is likely to be more friendly. I kind of wonder
if it should just be the default for "-a". Do we have any obligation not
to change the format of that output?

Assuming we want to keep "-a" and "-av" as-is, your patch seems quite
sensible to me.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-24 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-22 17:47 [PATCH] git help: promote 'git help -av' Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-09-22 19:29 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-23  6:51   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-24 18:19 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-09-24 20:20   ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-24 20:30     ` Jeff King
2018-09-24 20:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-25 15:15     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-25 17:44       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-25 20:54         ` Jeff King
2018-09-26 16:18           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-26 17:25             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 17:28         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-28  2:37           ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-28 16:30             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-28 17:49               ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-29  6:08 ` [PATCH v2] help -a: improve and make --verbose default Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-01 18:14   ` Taylor Blau

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