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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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)
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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