On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 12:31 AM Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Following the discussions about the tag peeling issue, I thought to have
> a look at what the git glossary says.
>
> I had it in my head that when the git guides were linked to the help
> system, that the --help option provided a short circuit direct to help
> item. However this did not happen.
>
> I found that the capability had been lost, which given that a lot of the
> underpinning knowledge is in the guides this would appear to be a loss.
>
> I don't have an older version to test, but I thought I remember the
> capability from about the time of my 65f98358c0 ("builtin/help.c: add
> --guide option", 2013-04-02).
>
> Have I misremembered the --help capability?
>
> cc'ing Duy in case he remembers something from the recent update
Phew... I didn't break anything!
That behavior has been gone since 2c6b6d9f7d (help: make option --help
open man pages only for Git commands, 2016-08-26). Ralf did not
mention why he thought "git <concept> --help" was a bad idea. But it
was considered a bug by Junio [1]
[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/CAPc5daXicjUDi6B-MA8Sn=_UZ_jHvc8SE4ZXt2dHbbDQkD7=WA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
--
Duy
