On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 03:20:00PM -0500, Taylor Blau wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 02:19:28PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 07:47:07PM +0200, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > > > > > When you type "git help" (or just "git") you are greeted with a list > > > with commonly used commands and their short description and are > > > suggested to use "git help -a" or "git help -g" for more details. > > > > > > "git help -av" would be more friendly and inline with what is shown > > > with "git help" since it shows list of commands with description as > > > well, and commands are properly grouped. > > > > I agree that "help -av" is likely to be more friendly. I kind of wonder > > if it should just be the default for "-a". Do we have any obligation not > > to change the format of that output? > > I agree, though I'd like to clarify what you said before doing so > wholeheartedly. > > Did you mean that all existing uses of 'git help -a' should instead mean > 'git help -av' (i.e., that '-a' after your proposed patch means the same > as '-av' in revisions prior to this one?) Yes, exactly. I think the vast majority of uses would prefer the categorized list. The obvious exceptions are: - you can't remember the name of the command so an alphabetized list is easier for sifting through (without having to re-sift for each category). - you need a machine-readable version of the list (e.g., for programmable completion). We have "git --list-cmds", but we may need to advertise it better and mark it non-experimental. I dunno. Maybe it is not worth the effort. Duy's existing patch is an easy one liner. ;) -Peff
