Re: [PATCH] git-remote: show all remotes with "git remote show"

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Apr 10, 2008, 19:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20080410195910.GB26779@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20080409151551.GA30439@sigill.intra.peff.net>

* Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> Many other commands use the "no arguments" form to show a
> list (e.g., git-branch, git-tag). While we did show all
> remotes for just "git remote", we displayed a usage error
> for "git remote show" with no arguments. This is
> counterintuitive, since by giving it _more_ information, we
> get _less_ result.
> 
> The usage model can now be thought of as:
> 
>   - "git remote show <remote>": show a remote
>   - "git remote show": show all remotes
>   - "git remote": assume "show"; i.e., shorthand for "git remote show"

btw., another suggestion: because i use 'git-remote show' rather frequently, i recently typoed "git-bisect show" and then realized that it was "git-bisect visualize". Shouldnt there be a "git-bisect show" alias?

I think using 'show' for all such 'display state' things would be rather intuitive, if it was applied consistently all across the board. ('visualize' could still remain indefinitely, for compatibility - and 'git-bisect log' would still do the log of the bisection decisions that were entered.)

Or is there some purpose behind this deviation that i missed?

	Ingo