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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
Cc: "Ralf Thielow" <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	<larsxschneider@gmail.com>, <me@jnm2.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 08:31:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwpjku1mz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F3BA479B58944083A62896E2F0504D48@PhilipOakley> (Philip Oakley's message of "Sat, 13 Aug 2016 01:08:22 +0100")

"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

> But does it cope with the Guides? Should it cope if spelt that way?
>
> git help revisions
> git revisions --help

Hmph.  Ralf's patch is not just "I wonder if we could do a bit
better" but is also a regression.  I do not particularly care
if the latter stops working, but the former definitely should,
as "git help -g" encourages readers to type that, but with the
change "git help <concept>" seems to stop working.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-13 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-12  2:00 `git stash --help` tries to pull up nonexistent file gitstack.html Joseph Musser
2016-08-12 15:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 16:03   ` Lars Schneider
2016-08-12 16:15     ` Joseph Musser
2016-08-12 16:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 18:14         ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-12 20:10         ` [PATCH] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-12 21:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 22:53             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-13  0:08               ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-13 15:31                 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-08-15  5:36           ` [PATCH v2] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-15 11:25             ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 17:57               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 20:40                 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 22:19                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-16 10:06                   ` John Keeping
2016-08-16 16:20             ` [PATCH v3] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 16:33               ` John Keeping
2016-08-16 16:39                 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 17:27               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-16 17:57                 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 19:06                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-18 18:57               ` [PATCH 0/2] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 18:57                 ` [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 18:57                   ` [PATCH 2/2] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 19:51                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-23 17:34                       ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 21:47                   ` [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only Philip Oakley
2016-08-19  8:32                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-19 15:53                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-23 17:41                     ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-24  7:47                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-19  8:39                   ` Remi Galan Alfonso
2016-08-23 17:37                     ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58                 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58                   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Revert "display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API" Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58                   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] help: introduce option --exclude-guides Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 19:06                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 19:42                       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:03                         ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 20:28                           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:00                       ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 20:20                         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:39                           ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58                   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow

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