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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:35:02PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> You miss the fact that "git grep -h" does not mean "show usage".  Oh,=
 and=20
> "git ls-remote -h" neither.  Three times's a charm: "git show-ref -h"=
 does=20
> not show the help either.
you are right with grep and show-ref.  However, ls-remote does not
require a repository, so it would not be affected by this patch.

> I am also not quite certain if we should not just tout "git help <cmd=
>" as=20
> the official way to request help.
Well, I would prefer to keep the short usage.

But anyway, having this inconsistency with the -h option across git
commands is bad.

Regards,
G=E1bor