Re: [PATCH v2] help -a: improve and make --verbose default
- From
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
- Date
- Oct 1, 2018, 18:14 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20181001181453.GA77583@syl>
- In-Reply-To
- <20180929060814.22781-1-pclouds@gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 08:08:14AM +0200, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
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> 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. > > "help -av" does not show everything "help -a" shows though. Add > external command section in "help -av" for this. While at there, add a > section for aliases as well (until now aliases have no UI, just "git > config"). > > Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> > --- > v2 makes 'help -av' default and the user would need to type 'help -a > --no-verbose' to get the old printout back. 'help -av' also has > external commands and aliases.
Thanks. This looks like what I would have expected based on my recollection of the discussion earlier on v1, so this has my:
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Thanks, Taylor