From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:59:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-remote: show all remotes with "git remote show"
Message-ID: <20080410195910.GB26779@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20080409151551.GA30439@sigill.intra.peff.net>


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

> 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