From: Scott Parish <sRp@srparish.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] "git" calls help_unknown_cmd(""); "git help" and "git help -a" return 0
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:16:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071027071631.GA16359@srparish.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v640twka3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 04:03:48PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Regarding "git: '' is not a git-command" the way i was seeing that
> > is that git is usually only called with commands, and '' isn't a
> > valid command, hence the reason to exit 1, the help is just a nice
> > user experience.
>
> But think who would type "git<Enter>". They are either people
> who (1) do not even know that "git" alone is not useful and that
> it always wants a subcommand, or (2) know "git<Enter>" is the
> same as "git help" and wants to get the "common command list"
> quickly. Technically, "'' is not a git-command" is correct, but
> the message does not help either audience, does it?
Fair enough, i'll drop that in the updated patch set i'm about ready
to send. Incidentally i was also missing the "usage" string.
sRp
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Scott Parish
http://srparish.net/
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 3:37 [PATCH 1/7] "git" calls help_unknown_cmd(""); "git help" and "git help -a" return 0 Scott R Parish
2007-10-25 3:37 ` [PATCH 2/7] s/pattern/prefix/ in help's list_commands Scott R Parish
2007-10-25 3:37 ` [PATCH 3/7] "current_exec_path" is a misleading name, use "argv_exec_path" Signed-off-by: Scott R Parish <srp@srparish.net> Scott R Parish
2007-10-25 3:37 ` [PATCH 4/7] use only the PATH for exec'ing git commands Scott R Parish
2007-10-25 3:37 ` [PATCH 5/7] chdir() into list_commands() dir instead of building paths for stat() Scott R Parish
2007-10-25 3:37 ` [PATCH 6/7] walk PATH to generate list of commands for "help -a" Scott R Parish
2007-10-25 3:37 ` [PATCH 7/7] shell should call setup_path() instead of manually setting up its path Scott R Parish
2007-10-25 4:42 ` [PATCH 6/7] walk PATH to generate list of commands for "help -a" Junio C Hamano
2007-10-25 5:07 ` Scott Parish
2007-10-25 5:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-25 7:07 ` Scott Parish
2007-10-25 4:41 ` [PATCH 2/7] s/pattern/prefix/ in help's list_commands Junio C Hamano
2007-10-25 4:53 ` Scott Parish
2007-10-25 6:30 ` [PATCH 2/7] remove unused/unneeded "pattern" argument of list_commands Scott R Parish
2007-10-25 6:32 ` [PATCH 5/7] chdir() into list_commands() dir instead of building paths for stat() Scott R Parish
2007-10-25 4:40 ` [PATCH 1/7] "git" calls help_unknown_cmd(""); "git help" and "git help -a" return 0 Junio C Hamano
2007-10-25 4:52 ` Scott Parish
2007-10-26 23:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-27 7:16 ` Scott Parish [this message]
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