Re: [PATCH] git-rebase -i: improve usage message

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Oct 29, 2009, 09:40 UTC
Message-ID: <200910291040.30820.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7vtyxiafa9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 
> The OPTIONS_SPEC in rebase--interactive is for the interactive mode and
> for nothing else, so it may be a good idea to clearly say so at the
> beginning.  The user experience perhaps should look like:
> 
>     $ git rebase -i -h
>     Note: this help is only about the interactive mode;
>     see 'git rebase -h' for help on non-interactive mode.
> 
>     usage: git rebase -i [<options>] [--] <upstream> [<branch>]
>        or: git rebase -i (--continue|--abort|--skip)

Nit-pick: the last line is not correct; the user does not have to
specify -i for git-rebase to figure out that an interactive rebase is
in progress.

(I agree with the rest though.)

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch