From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 05:36:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Group the default git help message by topic
Message-ID: <20100530053646.GB19219@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilWIRqnjjgGA3e9DDzw2MiHirjP2-W7PuPhonUs@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:47:19AM -0700, Scott Chacon wrote:

> It's difficult to process 21 commands (which is what is output
> by default for git when no command is given).  They have been
> re-grouped into 4 groups of 5-6 commands each, which is clearer
> and easier for new users to process.  More advanced commands
> such as bisect and rebase have also been removed as this should
> be output for beginners.

I think this is an improvement, but your patch seems to be whitespace
damaged.

> Also removes the common-cmd.h generation process, including
> parts of the Makefile and the generate-cmdlist.sh file.

We could always mark the relevant commands in command-list.txt and
auto-generate the structured list. But this list really should not
change much, so I don't know if the extra complexity to do it
automatically is worth it.

-Peff