Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] submodule: document default behavior

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:

>> > +With no arguments, the default command is 'status'.  Several subcommands are
>> > +available to perform operations on the submodules.
>>
>> I am not sure if "default is status" is really true.
>>
>>    $ git submodule status --recursive
>>    $ git submodule --recursive
>>    usage: git submodule [--quiet] ...
>>       or: ...
>>    $ git submodule -- sha1collisiondetection
>>    usage: git submodule [--quiet] ...
>>       or: ...
>>
>> If 'status' were truly the default, wouldn't the form without any
>> subcommand take any option and parameter the 'status' subcommand
>> would accept?
>
> This is very similar to git-remote. Its default command is 'show' but
> doing something like 'git remote -n' fails, even though
> 'git remote show -n' succeeds.
>
> Would it make sense to revise this back to
>
> 	With no arguments, shows the status of existing submodules.
>
> which was the phrasing I used in v1? (If this is the case, I'd also like
> to drop the first patch of this series.)

It certainly would avoid spreading misinformation to the readers by
technically more correct ;-).  I wasn't paying close attention to
the earlier round's review, but was there something specific that we
wanted to achieve by mentioning "by default we do this"?  If not,
the "with no arguments ..." you have in your response is concise,
readable, and informative and is a good description, I think.

Thanks.