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From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Convention for help in git commands?
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:24:48 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90510251324s50911b88pb5eabb304644bcad@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfyqpe87x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 10/26/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > * For commands which need at least one argument, the usage
> > is also printed, if the command is run without argument
>
> This is slightly debatable.  I'd rather see it error out for one
> thing, and we might want to do a sane default given no arguments
> later.

This could lead to subtle bugs when git is used by porcelains. If
there are going to be changes in default behaviours, let's have them
soon-ish ;-)

cheers,


martin

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-25 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-25 13:08 Convention for help in git commands? Josef Weidendorfer
2005-10-25 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-25 20:24   ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2005-10-25 21:35     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-10-25 22:07       ` Martin Langhoff

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