Re: [PATCH 1/1] show-ref: improve short help messages of options

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On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 02:11:11PM +0300, Alexander Shopov wrote:
> diff --git a/builtin/show-ref.c b/builtin/show-ref.c
> index 839a5c29f3..85700caae9 100644
> --- a/builtin/show-ref.c
> +++ b/builtin/show-ref.c
> @@ -293,8 +293,8 @@ int cmd_show_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  	struct show_one_options show_one_opts = {0};
>  	int verify = 0, exists = 0;
>  	const struct option show_ref_options[] = {
> -		OPT_BOOL(0, "tags", &patterns_opts.tags_only, N_("only show tags (can be combined with branches)")),
> -		OPT_BOOL(0, "branches", &patterns_opts.branches_only, N_("only show branches (can be combined with tags)")),
> +		OPT_BOOL(0, "tags", &patterns_opts.tags_only, N_("only show tags (can be combined with --branches)")),
> +		OPT_BOOL(0, "branches", &patterns_opts.branches_only, N_("only show branches (can be combined with --tags)")),
>  		OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "heads", &patterns_opts.branches_only,
>  				N_("deprecated synonym for --branches")),
>  		OPT_BOOL(0, "exists", &exists, N_("check for reference existence without resolving")),

Agreed, I think that this is a sensible change. In practice, this
feature can also be combined with `--head`, so in that spirit we might
even change it to:

    "only show tags (can be combined with --branches and --head)"

Not sure though whether this is getting too noisy?

Patrick

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