Re: [PATCH] Add subcommand "help" to the list of most commonly used subcommands

From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Jun 5, 2008, 10:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20080605105204.GA17979@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806051131310.21190@racer>

Johannes Schindelin wrote (2008-06-05 11:32 +0100):

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> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> 
> > Add subcommand "help" to the list of most commonly used subcommands
> 
> Hrmpf.  IMO "help" is not really a _git_ command.  And I use it
> really, really rarely.

But you know git inside out, don't you? It seems common to have such help command: svn help, bzr help, hg help. They all list "help" as one of the subcommands. I don't know anything about "being really a git command" but from user interface's point of view "git help" is a git command. It's even advertised in output of other git commands (well, at least "git gc --auto").

Anyway, I'd change the short description of "git help" to be more informative so I'd separate the changes. Version 2 follows.