From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rebase -i: improve usage message Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:40:28 +0100 Message-ID: <200910291040.30820.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <1256774549-8191-1-git-send-email-brian.ewins@gmail.com> <7vtyxiafa9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brian Ewins , , To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 29 10:41:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3RVn-0004FP-8a for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:41:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752254AbZJ2Jld (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:41:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751864AbZJ2Jlc (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:41:32 -0400 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.238]:14704 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751757AbZJ2Jlc (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:41:32 -0400 Received: from CAS01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.235) by gws01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.238) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:41:35 +0100 Received: from thomas.localnet (129.132.153.233) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:41:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.27.29-0.1-default; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <7vtyxiafa9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > > The OPTIONS_SPEC in rebase--interactive is for the interactive mode and > for nothing else, so it may be a good idea to clearly say so at the > beginning. The user experience perhaps should look like: > > $ git rebase -i -h > Note: this help is only about the interactive mode; > see 'git rebase -h' for help on non-interactive mode. > > usage: git rebase -i [] [--] [] > or: git rebase -i (--continue|--abort|--skip) Nit-pick: the last line is not correct; the user does not have to specify -i for git-rebase to figure out that an interactive rebase is in progress. (I agree with the rest though.) -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch