Re: [PATCH v2] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands

> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>
>> I'm still not sure this is enough. One of the problems back when I
>> introduced the --guides option (65f9835 (builtin/help.c: add --guide
>> option, 2013-04-02)) was that we had no easy way of determining what
>> guides were available, especially given the *nix/Windows split where
>> the help defaults are different (--man/--html).
>>
>> At the time[1] we (I) punted on trying to determine which guides were
>> actually installed, and just created a short list of the important
>> guides, which I believe you now check. However the less common guides
>> are still there (gitcvs-migration?), and others may be added locally.
>
> I think we should do both; "git help cvs-migration" should keep the
> same codeflow and behaviour as we have today (so that it would still
> work), while "git cvs-migration --help" should say "'cvs-migration'
> is not a git command".  That would be a good clean-up anyway.
>
> It obviously cannot be done if git.c::handle_builtin() does the same
> "swap <word> --help to help <word>" hack, but we could improve that
> part (e.g. rewrite it to "help --swapped <word>" to allow cmd_help()
> to notice).  When the user said "<word> --help", we don't do guides,
> when we swapped the word order, we check with guides, too.
>