Re: [PATCH] git-rebase -i: improve usage message

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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> The OPTIONS_SPEC in rebase--interactive is for the interactive mode and
> for nothing else, so it may be a good idea to clearly say so at the
> beginning.  The user experience perhaps should look like:
> 
>     $ git rebase -i -h
>     Note: this help is only about the interactive mode;
>     see 'git rebase -h' for help on non-interactive mode.
> 
>     usage: git rebase -i [<options>] [--] <upstream> [<branch>]
>        or: git rebase -i (--continue|--abort|--skip)

Nit-pick: the last line is not correct; the user does not have to
specify -i for git-rebase to figure out that an interactive rebase is
in progress.

(I agree with the rest though.)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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