Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] permit -h/--help-all in more scenarios

>
> "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > This series enables --help-all outside of repository contexts,
>
> I've been familiar with "git commit -h" (and commands other than
> "commit") outside a repository, but did not even know that "git
> commit --help-all" didn't work outside.  For commands that use
> parse-options, these come from the same source of informatino, so it
> does not make any sense for one to work and the other to refuse to
> work.  Good.
>
> > and
> > allows -h with other arguments (without breaking existing ls-remote/grep
> > usage).
>
> I somehow thought we already talked you out of this.

> Do you mean something like "git add -h foo" and "git add -h -N foo"
> would say "'git add foo' would add the current contents in foo to
> the index" and "'git add -N foo' would make the index aware of the
> path foo without actually adding its contents (yet)"?  I do not think
> it makes much sense to behave exactly the same as "git add -h" when
> the user says "git add -h foo" or "git add -h -N foo", as if we
> didn't even see the extra things on the command line.