Post #4141112
2026-07-27 15:18 UTC
@b0rk@social.jvns.ca
This made me take a look at the git --help page for the first time in a long time, and gosh there's a lot of new stuff I didn't know about and never use.
I know its a bit adrift from your question, but if git only had a bit of research on how people really used it, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a sequence of a tiny handful of commands (including what flags are common) that would allow for a useful "main page" ("git --help" or whatever).
(Or maybe that research has been done...?)
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@bradr@infosec.exchange 2026-07-27 15:24
@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I mean, why can't the first line of git help be something like, "For a brief introduction to the five most useful git commands, type "git help getting-started". (No, that help topic does not exist in the help docs). Instead, we get: % git help See 'git help ' to read about a specific subcommand Main Porcelain Commands add Add file contents to the index am Apply a series of patches from a mailbox archive Create an archive of files from a named tree (... 50 more subcommands with inscrutable one-liners...)