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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Joel Nothman <joel.nothman@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: include list of aliases in git-help --all
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:51:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk3ci6eun.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAkaFLVRP3WF=2hyBo9uxutJ8iLPyBVkiBs=29xN13762r32Bg@mail.gmail.com> (Joel Nothman's message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:20:18 +1100")

Joel Nothman <joel.nothman@gmail.com> writes:

> arguments to git help. They are also like commands in that it is
> possible to forget their name, or whether they are defined on a
> particular workstation, and to hence want a listing.

I did envision that it would be useful for the last case, but then
the users would be helped even more if they can get a list of ONLY
aliases, not buried in many standard commands they already know
about.

In other words, I was not fundamentally opposed to *a* way to get a
list that includes aliases, but I was not convinced if it is a good
idea to *change* the output, which people knew would consist of
commands but not aliases, to suddenly start including aliases.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-25 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-25  0:48 [PATCH] help: include list of aliases in git-help --all Joel Nothman
2014-02-25 19:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-25 21:20   ` Joel Nothman
2014-02-25 21:51     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-02-25 22:32       ` Joel Nothman
2014-02-25 23:01     ` Philip Oakley
2014-02-25 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano

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