Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:
More importantly, callers expect error messages on stderr, such as usage
with wrong arguments. I don't think scripts would call commands with
'-h', and if they do they do so on purpose and can parse stderr, knowing
there is no stdout in this case.
It looks like a workaround to me. Anyway, if -h is left unchanged then,
I think, --help should be adjusted as well when it doesn't use an
external pager.
These two commands behave differently:
git status --help 2>/dev/null | cat -
git status -h 2>/dev/null | cat -
IMO, what should be changed is -h to be uniform with --help, as the it
is the expected output, not an error.
Cheers,
Giuseppe