Re: Convention for help in git commands?

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2005, 22:07 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90510251507oe62ce42i86e6d4cf8200f20@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200510252335.47917.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

On 10/26/05, Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 22:24, you wrote:
> > On 10/26/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > > > * For commands which need at least one argument, the usage
> > > > is also printed, if the command is run without argument
> > >
> > > This is slightly debatable.  I'd rather see it error out for one
> > > thing, and we might want to do a sane default given no arguments
> > > later.
> >
> > This could lead to subtle bugs when git is used by porcelains. If
> > there are going to be changes in default behaviours, let's have them
> > soon-ish ;-)
>
> What is the difference for a porcelain between error out,
> presumable with an error message, and printing the usage alone?

Sorry! My comment was aimed at the "do a sane default given no arguments later" part of Junio's post. Error vs help messages don't affect porcelains if you check your tty and avoid spitting out a help message when invoked from a script ;-)

cheers,

martin