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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: "Sébastien Pierre" <sebastien@xprima.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git log is a bit antisocial
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:06:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vu08volrp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145051072.27704.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Sébastien Pierre's message of "Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:44:32 -0400")

Sébastien Pierre <sebastien@xprima.com> writes:

> Le vendredi 14 avril 2006 à 14:28 -0700, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
>
>> What about it?
>> 
>> Asking for help on log could be spelled as "git log --help" with
>> a patch like the attached, but I am not sure that is worth it...
>
> I would say that it is very useful to newbies, or simply not to
> frustrate users trying to get help. It is really worth it, at least for
> me.

Have you read the patch, especially the comment in it?  With and
without the patch, this command would behave quite differently:

	$ git commit --help

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-14 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-14 20:50 git log is a bit antisocial Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-14 20:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-14 21:20   ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-14 21:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-14 21:44       ` Sébastien Pierre
2006-04-14 22:06         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-04-14 22:15           ` Sébastien Pierre
2006-04-14 22:45             ` Junio C Hamano

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