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git consistency and --help

Subject: git consistency and --help

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Mike Frysinger· Dec 21, 2007, 09:37 UTC · lore

along the lines of the different aspects of git being consistent, shouldnt the shell scripts all be changed to call `man` ?

these call `man`: git diff --help git log --help git stash --help git rebase --help git-diff --help git-log --help

these show a short usage: git-stash --help git-rebase --help

looking at the code, it comes down to the git-sh-setup.sh file mostly ... -mike

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