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
prev parent 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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