On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble+github@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This series enables --help-all outside of repository contexts, > > I've been familiar with "git commit -h" (and commands other than > "commit") outside a repository, but did not even know that "git > commit --help-all" didn't work outside. For commands that use > parse-options, these come from the same source of informatino, so it > does not make any sense for one to work and the other to refuse to > work. Good. > > > and > > allows -h with other arguments (without breaking existing ls-remote/grep > > usage). > > I somehow thought we already talked you out of this. You did! Forgot to drop that segment from the cover letter. > Do you mean something like "git add -h foo" and "git add -h -N foo" > would say "'git add foo' would add the current contents in foo to > the index" and "'git add -N foo' would make the index aware of the > path foo without actually adding its contents (yet)"? I do not think > it makes much sense to behave exactly the same as "git add -h" when > the user says "git add -h foo" or "git add -h -N foo", as if we > didn't even see the extra things on the command line. So this is moot. Good catch, thanks.
