Re: [PATCH] notes: attach help text to subcommands

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Hi Jonathan and Felipe,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>>  Thanks.  I wish we could do something aout USAGE_OPTS_WIDTH and
>>  USAGE_GAP; I stole them from parse-options.
>
> Expose them in parse-options.h?  Or put this functionality in a
> parseopt-related file?

Exposing a `subcommand_usage` in parse-options.h may not be a bad idea.

Felipe Contreras wrote:
> There's many commands that would benefit from this. In addition to
> provide a better help for subcommands, this can be used to generate
> automatically the shell completion list of subcommands.
>
> Even more; in zsh it would be possible to show this help text directly
> in the completion.

How exactly is that going to work?  `git notes -h` doesn't output
this- so the only way to get this output is to invoke `git notes` with
an invalid subcommand.  To fix that, I'd have to teach parse-options
about subcommands.

Ram
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