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Re: [PATCH] Modified the default git help message to be grouped by topic

From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:43

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:30:37AM -0800, Scott Chacon wrote:
It's difficult to process 21 commands (which is what is output
by default for git when no command is given).  I've re-grouped
them into 4 groups of 5 or 6 commands each, which I think is
clearer and easier for new users to process.
I like it (and I think the categorizations look reasonable, which is
something that I recall caused some discussion at the GitTogether).

The only downside I see is that we're now >24 lines.
This won't automatically update with the common-commands.txt file,
but I think it is easier to parse for the command you may be looking
for.
Personally, I don't see a big problem. This is not a list that should
change very frequently, and there is extra information here that would
be annoying to encode in the list. But since the "common" flag in
command-list.txt and the common-cmds.h file would no longer be used,
they should probably be removed.

-Peff
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