Re: [PATCH] Modified the default git help message to be grouped by topic
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:55:03PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> If the whole thing gets longer than 24 lines, we have to leave some things
>>> out. Personally, I consider rm and mv unimportant enough that they could
>>> be shown in an extended list, but be left out of the summary page.
>>
>> For the record, the current output is 26 lines, plus you probably want
>> to account for 1 line of the user's next shell prompt. So we are 3 lines
>> over already.
>>
>> Scott's proposal is about grouping the commands more sensibly. Many of
>> the complaints are about the length of the output. Maybe we should scrap
>> having a list of commands altogether and just point at section-specific
>> documentation, each of which could discuss basic commands related to it.
>>
>> I think there has been mention of task-oriented documentation pointers
>> before, and I think this is a place where we would want it.
>
> It might not be a bad idea to make this "top page help" into an
> interactive hierarchical help topic browser.
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