Re: [PATCH] ls-remote: a lone "-h" is asking for help

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 16, 2011, 20:53 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAGdFq_jc4YDaD+NL6_+buCrOt2yAK+-_MDOJQU5qnS13P65CzQ@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

> ... Should we have some way to queue patches like
> this, or would someone have to resend after the appropriate release?

For this particular case, I do not think it is worth _my_ time to keep maintaining that patch.

It is understandable that a new person will be hurt if

	$ git ls-remote -h

does not give a short-help message and instead try to contact and show the origin repository which may not even exist, and that is why I sent a fix.

But would anybody gets hurt if

	$ git ls-remote -h origin
        $ git ls-remote -h git://git.kernel.org/pub/git/git.git

kept working as they do today, given that we do not advertise -h as a synonym in "git ls-remote -h" output?

That is why I said "I am not opposed to", and not "I'd volunteer to do that". It's not worth my time, but since you brought it up, you may care more about it.