From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:28:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modifies the default git help message to be grouped by topic
Message-ID: <20081202172848.GA19876@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081202172025.GB15826@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:20:25PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> Sorry to reverse direction after you resubmitted, but my earlier comment
> on "this list shouldn't change frequently" didn't take into account that
> the _synopsis_ might change, which is much more likely. So maybe rather
> than ditching the auto-generation, it makes sense to just hardcode the
> order and categorization, but pull the rest from autogeneration.

Note also that one could of course just use "common:basic" or something
like that in command-list.txt. But to handle arbitrary ordering, we
would have to reorder command-list as appropriate (which currently gets
sorted), or do something awful like common:basic1, common:basic2, etc. I
tried to choose the most straightforward approach that didn't involve
duplication of information.

-Peff