Re: some git-commands --help don't act like git commands --help
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Dec 29, 2008, 09:54 UTC
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Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> writes:
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> Quoting jidanni@jidanni.org: > >> Hmmm, some git-commands --help act just like git commands --help, >> $ git commit --help 2>&1|wc -l >> 336 >> $ git-commit --help 2>&1|wc -l >> 336 >> >> But others don't >> $ git am --help 2>&1|wc -l >> 152 >> $ git-am --help 2>&1|wc -l >> 19 > > Thank you for your observation; what do you want to do about it? > > Are you complaining that some commands do not have customized description that is not as long as the full manual page but not as terse as the short help "-h" output? Or are you complaining some other commands do not give you full manual pages for "--help"?
I think he is comparing "git am" and "git-am" the latter of which is now deprecated and largely removed from the end user.
IOW, the seeming inconsistency is not an issue anymore in practice in the post 1.6.0 era.