From: Sean Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:04:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document git-runstatus Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <455F210B.8000107@lsrfire.ath.cx> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:04:43 +0100 Rene Scharfe wrote: > git-status is a wrapper around git-runstatus that takes the same > options as git-commit. It could have been named 'git-commit --dry-run'. What could be said in the docs as to when the use of one is preferred over the other? > > All commands deserve a man page. > > Exactly. Even plumbers read manuals ;-). Well, me at least. Heh, I suppose you and Petr are right. It's just that in recent discussions the great number of commands provided by Git is seen as a UI problem. Thus having two commands that seem to do the exact same thing gives more such pain for no gain. It's possible that plumbers should not be seen as "users" but rather as coders capable of reading traditional text based (non man-page) documentation for their purposes, and man pages should only exist (or at least installed) for user level commands.