From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:45:14 GMT
Subject: Re: git log is a bit antisocial
Message-ID: <7vd5fjojyd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1145052905.27704.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Sébastien Pierre <sebastien@xprima.com> writes:

> Anyway, on git 1.2.3, here is something interesting:
>
>>> git log -h
> fatal: Not a git repository
>
>>> git log --help
> Usage: /home/sebastien/Local/bin/git-log [--max-count=<n>]
> [<since>..<limit>] [--pretty=<format>] [git-rev-list options]

You are talking about old codebase in the maitenance branch,
which is an independent issue, but thanks for noticing anyway.

The attached patch would help with that.

> Which is confusing, so having a consistent behaviour for "git help cmd",
> "git cmd help", "git cmd -h" and "git cmd --help" would be nice.
>
> For instance, Darcs works just like that, which makes it easy for
> newbies to find there ways through.

Patches welcome, but a new development should be based on the
"master" branch, not the maintenance 1.2.X series.

-- >8 --
diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index 025ef2d..d15747f 100755
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ else
 fi
 
 case "$1" in
-	--h|--he|--hel|--help)
+	-h|--h|--he|--hel|--help)
 	echo "$LONG_USAGE"
 	exit
 esac