Re: git log is a bit antisocial

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

$  git log -h
fatal: unrecognized argument: -h
$ git log --help
fatal: unrecognized argument: --help

Maybe the usage string could be printed in those cases?

Perhaps.  Alternatively, "git help log", perhaps.

What about git-log then?

What about it?

Asking for help on log could be spelled as "git log --help" with
a patch like the attached, but I am not sure that is worth it...

-- >8 --

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 78ed403..7fdacdd 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c

@@ -497,6 +497,16 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv, ch
 	}
 	argv[0] = cmd;
 
+	/* It could be git blah --help or git boo -h, but be
+	 * careful; most commands have their own '-h' and '--help'.
+	 */
+	if (argc == 2 &&
+	    (!strcmp(argv[1], "-h") || !strcmp(argv[1], "--help"))) {
+		argv[0] = "help";
+		argv[1] = cmd;
+		exit(cmd_help(1, argv, envp));
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * We search for git commands in the following order:
 	 *  - git_exec_path()