From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nanako Shiraishi Subject: Re: some git-commands --help don't act like git commands --help Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:53:05 +0900 Message-ID: <20081229175305.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> References: <87iqp333bk.fsf@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 29 09:55:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LHDu4-0000ha-Ti for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:55:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752782AbYL2Ixo (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:53:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752746AbYL2Ixn (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:53:43 -0500 Received: from karen.lavabit.com ([72.249.41.33]:41615 "EHLO karen.lavabit.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752706AbYL2Ixn (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:53:43 -0500 Received: from b.earth.lavabit.com (b.earth.lavabit.com [192.168.111.11]) by karen.lavabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB10C8425; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:53:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from 3893.lavabit.com (212.62.97.21) by lavabit.com with ESMTP id 8D6MCYTMQY2O; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:53:42 -0600 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lavabit; d=lavabit.com; b=wc4Ni8c29vjrkn7JxY8JmA7Ntl04Bsq5JGIU8UiQ/6NN3zDf1YdyYF4/n9gh8NnYZQLT06I8RZqY51nhdOM7+q0xWUdg23QzsaxLi+i7MsnYC4wyDpML4TUGD46ZErJHuqr0fopxutXxDjEZUYKutMHmqbICQF3wSh/189tGvBA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; In-Reply-To: <87iqp333bk.fsf@jidanni.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Quoting jidanni@jidanni.org: > Hmmm, some git-commands --help act just like git commands --help, > $ git commit --help 2>&1|wc -l > 336 > $ git-commit --help 2>&1|wc -l > 336 > > But others don't > $ git am --help 2>&1|wc -l > 152 > $ git-am --help 2>&1|wc -l > 19 Thank you for your observation; what do you want to do about it? Are you complaining that some commands do not have customized description that is not as long as the full manual page but not as terse as the short help "-h" output? Or are you complaining some other commands do not give you full manual pages for "--help"? -- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/