Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > It is a tangent, but I wonder how many among the 40 really needed to > use usage_with_options() to react to "-h" in the first place. In > other words, these manual checks for "-h" are done only because the > code _wants_ to react to "-h" before it calls parse_options(), but > does everybody who _wants_ to do so really _needs_ to do so? You > already have shown that "gir branch" did not have to, and to me, 40 > among 100+ felt way too many. It turns out that some of the actually cannot be helped, as they do not even use parse-options and calling usage() themselves is the only way to show the usage text for them. I'll send a 6-patch series out shortly.
