Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes: >> * -h and --help makes the script die with the usage message. > > Good. Supporting -h and --help are good, but we probably do not want to exit with non-zero status in such a case. Not a big deal, though. >> * The message is printed to stderr. > > Arguable. One thing I really hate is a program that does more than one pageful of help message to stderr which forces me to do "blah >&2 --help | less", but our help messages are short and sweet, so I feel stderr is OK. >> * The message is of the form "usage: $0 options" > > Not good. We are in a transition to "git whatever" from "git-whatever". But when the user wishes to look at the manual page, he needs to say "man git-whatever", so either way you cannot win. I'm neutral either way, as long as we are consistent. > Besides, I have to admit that I am a bit annoyed by 25 mini mails for the > same purpose. I'd appreciate the flexibility of reviewing them indivudually, especially when some of them seem to change the structure of the argument parsing loop. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sun Dec 11 13:59:23 2005
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