Re: [PATCH] git-stash: Display help message if git-stash is run with wrong sub-commands

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 3, 2007, 10:25 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712031023480.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071203061617.GB1976@blorf.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Wayne Davison wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:34:05AM +0800, Kevin Leung wrote:
> > +USAGE='[  | save | list | show | apply | clear ]'
> 
> It seems strange to me that git stash is using sub-sub-command words 
> instead of options.  Would it make more sense to be more like git branch 
> and have a list be indicated by -l, etc.?

But those are not really options, are they? They are commands, which exclude each other. And even if they are sub-sub-commands, why should we not rather fix "git branch" to support a sane syntax, too?

We could even put some general support into parse-options.[ch] for sub-commands.

Ciao, Dscho