From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:14:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] git-cvsexportcommit.perl: Fix usage() output.
Message-ID: <7vbr0mx4fj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051114164505.GF9131@raven.localdomain>

Kevin Geiss <kevin@desertsol.com> writes:

>  sub usage {
>  	print STDERR <<END;
> -Usage: GIT_DIR=/path/to/.gi ${\basename $0}      # fetch/update GIT from CVS
> -       [-h] [-p] [ parent ] commit
> +Usage: GIT_DIR=/path/to/.git ${\basename $0} [-h] [-p] [-v] [-c] [ parent ] commit
>  END
>  	exit(1);
>  }

I hate to be nitpicky, but this slurps in File::Basename
(9Kbytes) only to shorten the displayed command name.

I personally do not like programs that shorten $0 (or in C
argv[0]) when they identify themselves.  This is probably just
me, but I was bitten by such programs too many times while
debugging them, after wasting too many hours only to find that I
was not running the executable I thought I was running but
something else that happened to be earlier on my PATH X-<.