From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Pierre Subject: Re: git log is a bit antisocial Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:15:05 -0400 Organization: XPrima Message-ID: <1145052905.27704.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <7vlku7q3k7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vhd4vq23h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1145051072.27704.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <7vu08volrp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 15 00:15:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUWZH-00010u-Q6 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:15:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030212AbWDNWPD convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:15:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030211AbWDNWPD (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:15:03 -0400 Received: from ritalin.autolinq.com ([207.96.225.42]:24480 "HELO ritalin.autolinq.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030212AbWDNWPB (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:15:01 -0400 Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 24585 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2006 22:15:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.14?) ([207.96.159.2]) (envelope-sender ) by ritalin.autolinq.com (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Apr 2006 22:15:00 -0000 To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <7vu08volrp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Le vendredi 14 avril 2006 =C3=A0 15:06 -0700, Junio C Hamano a =C3=A9cr= it : > Have you read the patch, especially the comment in it? With and > without the patch, this command would behave quite differently: I did not realize that at first (I thought this would be a fallback method).=20 Anyway, on git 1.2.3, here is something interesting: >> git log -h fatal: Not a git repository >> git log --help Usage: /home/sebastien/Local/bin/git-log [--max-count=3D] [..] [--pretty=3D] [git-rev-list options] Which is confusing, so having a consistent behaviour for "git help cmd"= , "git cmd help", "git cmd -h" and "git cmd --help" would be nice. =46or instance, Darcs works just like that, which makes it easy for newbies to find there ways through. -- S=C3=A9bastien