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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] help -a: improve and make --verbose default
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 11:14:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181001181453.GA77583@syl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180929060814.22781-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 08:08:14AM +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.
>
> "help -av" does not show everything "help -a" shows though. Add
> external command section in "help -av" for this. While at there, add a
> section for aliases as well (until now aliases have no UI, just "git
> config").
>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
>  v2 makes 'help -av' default and the user would need to type 'help -a
>  --no-verbose' to get the old printout back. 'help -av' also has
>  external commands and aliases.

Thanks. This looks like what I would have expected based on my
recollection of the discussion earlier on v1, so this has my:

  Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>

Thanks,
Taylor

      reply	other threads:[~2018-10-01 18:14 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
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 [this message]

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