On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:54 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mentioning aliases seems reasonable to me. The definitions of some of
> mine are pretty nasty bits of shell, but I guess that people either
> don't have any ugly aliases, or are comfortable enough with them that
> they won't be scared away. :)
I have one with a very long pretty format for git-log. Well, you wrote
your aliases you learn to live with them :) We could certainly cut too
long aliased commands to keep the listing pretty, but I don't think we
should do that until somebody asks for it.
> > -- 8< --
> > @@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ static struct option builtin_help_options[] = {
> > HELP_FORMAT_WEB),
> > OPT_SET_INT('i', "info", &help_format, N_("show info page"),
> > HELP_FORMAT_INFO),
> > - OPT__VERBOSE(&verbose, N_("print command description")),
> > OPT_END(),
> > };
>
> Would we want to continue respecting "-v" as a noop? I admit I did not
> even know it existed until this thread, but if people have trained
> themselves to run "git help -av", we should probably continue to give
> them this output.
-v was recently added just for the new "help -a" in May 2018. I think
it's ok to get rid of it. Memory muscles probably take a couple more
months to kick in.
--
Duy
