Re: [PATCH] Document git-runstatus

[A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>]

Sean wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:04:43 +0100
> Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> wrote:
> 
>> git-status is a wrapper around git-runstatus that takes the same
>> options as git-commit.  It could have been named 'git-commit --dry-run'.
> 
> What could be said in the docs as to when the use of one is preferred
> over the other?
> 
>>> All commands deserve a man page.
>> Exactly.  Even plumbers read manuals ;-).  Well, me at least.
> 
> Heh, I suppose you and Petr are right.  It's just that in recent
> discussions the great number of commands provided by Git is seen
> as a UI problem.  Thus having two commands that seem to do the
> exact same thing gives more such pain for no gain.
> 
> It's possible that plumbers should not be seen as "users" but
> rather as coders capable of reading traditional text based
> (non man-page) documentation for their purposes, and man pages
> should only exist (or at least installed) for user level commands.