From: Scott Chacon Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:10:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modified the default git help message to be grouped by topic Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v7i6jqriv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi, On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > >> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:30:37AM -0800, Scott Chacon wrote: >> >>> It's difficult to process 21 commands (which is what is output >>> by default for git when no command is given). I've re-grouped >>> them into 4 groups of 5 or 6 commands each, which I think is >>> clearer and easier for new users to process. >> >> I like it (and I think the categorizations look reasonable, which is >> something that I recall caused some discussion at the GitTogether). >> >> The only downside I see is that we're now >24 lines. > > If this list is meant to show "the most commonly used" basics, then you > can trim the list somewhat. For example, "rm" and "mv" can be safely > discarded, "status" can be replaced with "diff", and "diff" can be removed > from "History Commands". > I sent a new patch that removes 'rm' and 'mv' and removes the common-cmd.h build process. I did keep the 'status' command, since in my personal experience people tend to like having that command. Scott