Whilst looking at git-rebase, I noticed I have a few local git --help
related patches from a couple of years ago that I use on my own systems.
I'm not sure whether they're just personal quirks, but I thought I should
post them to the list in case they're of wider interest or might be relevant
upstream.
The first two patches allow the HTML path used by git-help --web to be set
in .gitconfig, and allow it to be a URL prefix, so you can do
[help]
format = html
htmlpath = http://git-scm.com/docs
git wibble --help will then open http://git-scm.com/docs/git-wibble.html
instead of /share/doc/git/html/git-wibble.html in your browser.
The third patch adds a help format called 'usage' making git wibble --help
equivalent to git wibble -h, i.e. printing short command-line usage
information. (Generally that's what I want and I end up rather surprised
when I get an unwanted man page because my fingers are trained to type the
more universal --help rather than -h.)
This 'usage' help format is also good for making --help do something useful
other than produce an error message on our cut-down servers without man
pages, web browsers and so on.
Best wishes,
Chris.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html