Re: Parameter --color-words not documented for "git show"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2011, 21:25 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk4hzqnbx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D389E69.608@hartwork.org>

Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org> writes:

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> On 01/20/11 21:27, Thomas Rast wrote:
>> Quote from the latter:
>> 
>>        This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
>
> Okay.  Is that a good a idea?

Yes; the alternative is to list everything.

> Is --abbrev-commit really used more
> frequently with "git show" than --color-words is?

I see this as a not-so-helpful-but-still-interesting question.

It depends on who you are, and if one wants to pick the most often used ones, that selection may or may not coincide with _your_ usage pattern nor mine. The original author apparently thought so, you seem to think color-words is used a lot more often, and I personally think neither is used often at all. So should we swap them, keep things as-is, or remove both?

We obviously cannot take a poll to update the list every time a new user starts using git, but it might make sense to review them every once in a while.