From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:25:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-stash: Display help message if git-stash is run with wrong sub-commands Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20071203061617.GB1976@blorf.net> Hi, On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Wayne Davison wrote: > 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