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patchNice help Output - SmallProjectIdea[1]

Subject: [Patch] Nice help Output - SmallProjectIdea[1]

## tl;dr

4 messages between May 1, 2015 and May 2, 2015. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Alangi Derick· May 1, 2015, 18:33 UTC · lore

This is a patch to fix the problem as given in the site: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SmallProjectsIdeas

Show changes to help.c +12 −3
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 2072a87..e347bbc 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -229,9 +229,18 @@ void list_common_cmds_help(void)

  puts(_("The most commonly used git commands are:"));
  for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds); i++) {
- printf("   %s   ", common_cmds[i].name);
- mput_char(' ', longest - strlen(common_cmds[i].name));
- puts(_(common_cmds[i].help));
+ if(i%3 == 1){
+ printf("   %s   ", common_cmds[i].name);
+ mput_char(' ', longest - strlen(common_cmds[i].name));
+ puts(_(common_cmds[i].help));
+ printf("\n");
+ }
+ else {
+ printf("   %s   ", common_cmds[i].name);
+ mput_char(' ', longest - strlen(common_cmds[i].name));
+ puts(_(common_cmds[i].help));
+ }
+
  }
 }


Regards
Alangi Derick Ndimnain
Thomas Gummerer· May 1, 2015, 19:11 UTC · re: Alangi Derick · lore

Re: [Patch] Nice help Output - SmallProjectIdea[1]

Hi,
Alangi Derick <alangiderick@gmail.com> writes:
> This is a patch to fix the problem as given in the site:
> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SmallProjectsIdeas

Please have a look at Documentation/SubmittingPatches, on how to submit well formed patches. In particular, the following things should be improved:

- The commit should have a meaningful commit message (See section 2 in
  SubmittingPatches)
- The patch should be created with git format-patch, so it can be
  applied using git am. (See section 3 and 4)
- Your work should be signed off, otherwise it can not be applied to the
  project. (See section 5)
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> diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
> index 2072a87..e347bbc 100644
> --- a/help.c
> +++ b/help.c
> @@ -229,9 +229,18 @@ void list_common_cmds_help(void)
>
>   puts(_("The most commonly used git commands are:"));
>   for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds); i++) {
> - printf("   %s   ", common_cmds[i].name);
> - mput_char(' ', longest - strlen(common_cmds[i].name));
> - puts(_(common_cmds[i].help));
> + if(i%3 == 1){
> + printf("   %s   ", common_cmds[i].name);
> + mput_char(' ', longest - strlen(common_cmds[i].name));
> + puts(_(common_cmds[i].help));
> + printf("\n");
> + }
> + else {
> + printf("   %s   ", common_cmds[i].name);
> + mput_char(' ', longest - strlen(common_cmds[i].name));
> + puts(_(common_cmds[i].help));
> + }
> +

Patch formatting issues aside, I don't think this does what is suggested in the project. You are just adding a blank line after three lines in the help output, which I don't think improves the current state by much.

The bzr help output on the other hand groups similar commands together, and shows them to the user in groups. So the first step would be to find out which commands should be grouped together and then to output the groups here.

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>   }
>  }
>
>
> Regards
> Alangi Derick Ndimnain
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Alangi Derick· May 2, 2015, 07:04 UTC · re: Thomas Gummerer · lore

Re: [Patch] Nice help Output - SmallProjectIdea[1]

Thanks for the correction. I will work on that and see if i can solve the problem. With respect to my git send-email, it is not working so i don't know whether i have a problem with my smtp. I don't know how to configure it.

Thomas Gummerer· May 2, 2015, 09:51 UTC · re: Alangi Derick · lore

Re: [Patch] Nice help Output - SmallProjectIdea[1]

Hi,
On 05/02, Alangi Derick wrote:
> Thanks for the correction. I will work on that and see if i can solve
> the problem.

I've noticed there was another patch series, which attempts at solving the same problem at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/268198. So maybe you could coordinate with Sébastien, or work on another project, to avoid duplicating the work.

> With respect to my git send-email, it is not working so i
> don't know whether i have a problem with my smtp. I don't know how to
> configure it.

Maybe you can send us the configuration here, so someone might be able to help. Though it might be faster to get help on IRC, on the #git channel on freenode.

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