Re: Git branch outputs usage message on stderr

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2025, 16:55 UTC
Message-ID: <c92e7b16-b70d-46f3-9858-2be805c5285f@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqed1414gt.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, at 16:28, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Somebody may want to go over "git help --all" and for each of them
> try "git $cmd -h >/dev/null" to find those that give the help output
> to their standard error stream.

    #!/bin/sh

    for cmd in $(git --list-cmds=builtins); do
        git $cmd -h >/dev/null
    done 2>&1 | grep '^usage: ' \
        | perl -pe 's/^usage:\s*(\(EXPERIMENTAL!\)\s*)?//; s/^(git\s+[a-zA-Z0-9-]+).*/\1/'

Gives

    git am
    git branch
    git check-ref-format
    git checkout--worker
    git checkout-index
    git commit
    git commit-tree
    git credential
    git diff
    git diff-files
    git diff-index
    git diff-tree
    git fast-import
    git fetch-pack
    git fsmonitor--daemon
    git gc
    git get-tar-commit-id
    git index-pack
    git ls-files
    git mailsplit
    git merge
    git merge-index
    git merge-ours
    git merge-recursive
    git merge-recursive-ours
    git merge-recursive-theirs
    git merge-subtree
    git pack-redundant
    git rebase
    git remote-ext
    git remote-fd
    git rev-list
    git rev-parse
    git status
    git unpack-file
    git unpack-objects
    git update-index
    git upload-archive
    git upload-archive
    git var

For

    $ git version
    git version 2.48.0