From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] On error, do not list all commands, but point to --help option.
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:28:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <odetifoh.fsf@blue.sea.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710202126430.25221@racer.site> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:28:50 +0100 (BST)")
* Sat 2007-10-20 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> INBOX
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> - commented out call to list_common_cmds_help()
>
> If you're really sure that this is desired, do not comment it out. Delete
> it.
I'm sure.
There is no point of reminding *every* time you make a typo during
writing the commands. It fills half of the screen and obscures the
previous commands that were running. It's much more polite and elegant
in shorted form.
Jari
New patch follows.
--
Welcome to FOSS revolution: we fix and modify until it shines
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-21 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-20 8:24 [PATCH] On error, do not list all commands, but point to --help option Jari Aalto
2007-10-20 20:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-20 22:28 ` Jari Aalto [this message]
2007-10-20 23:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-21 2:06 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-21 3:24 ` Jeff King
2007-10-21 3:29 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-21 6:33 ` Yin Ping
2007-10-21 8:58 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-21 12:42 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-21 13:13 ` Jan Hudec
2007-10-21 14:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-24 0:28 ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-10-20 22:41 ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-21 3:33 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-21 10:09 ` Jan Hudec
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