Re: [PATCH] Modified the default git help message to be grouped by topic

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On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:55:03PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> If the whole thing gets longer than 24 lines, we have to leave some things 
> out.  Personally, I consider rm and mv unimportant enough that they could 
> be shown in an extended list, but be left out of the summary page.

For the record, the current output is 26 lines, plus you probably want
to account for 1 line of the user's next shell prompt. So we are 3 lines
over already.

Scott's proposal is about grouping the commands more sensibly. Many of
the complaints are about the length of the output. Maybe we should scrap
having a list of commands altogether and just point at section-specific
documentation, each of which could discuss basic commands related to it.

I think there has been mention of task-oriented documentation pointers
before, and I think this is a place where we would want it.

-Peff
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