From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Wayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>
Cc: Kevin Leung <kevinlsk@gmail.com>, Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-stash: Display help message if git-stash is run with wrong sub-commands
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:25:17 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712031023480.27959@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071203061617.GB1976@blorf.net>
Hi,
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:34:05AM +0800, Kevin Leung wrote:
> > +USAGE='[ | save | list | show | apply | clear ]'
>
> It seems strange to me that git stash is using sub-sub-command words
> instead of options. Would it make more sense to be more like git branch
> and have a list be indicated by -l, etc.?
But those are not really options, are they? They are commands, which
exclude each other. And even if they are sub-sub-commands, why should we
not rather fix "git branch" to support a sane syntax, too?
We could even put some general support into parse-options.[ch] for
sub-commands.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-03 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-03 2:34 [PATCH] git-stash: Display help message if git-stash is run with wrong sub-commands Kevin Leung
2007-12-03 2:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 3:36 ` Kevin Leung
2007-12-03 6:16 ` Wayne Davison
2007-12-03 10:25 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-12-04 15:28 ` Wayne Davison
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