From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:19:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git help: promote 'git help -av'
Message-ID: <20180924181927.GB25341@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180922174707.16498-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 07:47:07PM +0200, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> When you type "git help" (or just "git") you are greeted with a list
> with commonly used commands and their short description and are
> suggested to use "git help -a" or "git help -g" for more details.
> 
> "git help -av" would be more friendly and inline with what is shown
> with "git help" since it shows list of commands with description as
> well, and commands are properly grouped.

I agree that "help -av" is likely to be more friendly. I kind of wonder
if it should just be the default for "-a". Do we have any obligation not
to change the format of that output?

Assuming we want to keep "-a" and "-av" as-is, your patch seems quite
sensible to me.

-Peff