On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 3:10 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 I see. I would still find it clearer if there were a fuller explanation in the "-h" output, but it's not a big deal. At least I'm not the only one who's been confused :) Thanks, Jeremy
