On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:11:23PM -0400, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: > The short help for ls-remote advertises that '-h' is short for '--heads': > [...] > However, 'git ls-remote -h' instead prints the help. So perhaps the > help message should be revised. It does work as documented with an argument, like: git ls-remote -h <remote> Yes, this is somewhat weird, but is a balance between consistency and backwards compatibility. See: https://lore.kernel.org/git/YU4QxcORBBR01iV8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ as a starting point for past discussions. The manpage (or "--help") describes the behavior correctly; it may be that the "-h" output could do so as well, but it's sometimes hard to communicate such subtleties in such a terse format. So there may be room for a patch to make things more clear there, but I think it may be difficult to do well. -Peff
