There's a patch at the bottom of this, so please look at that first before my reading my whining immediately below.
I'm having some troubles with git pull, so this is just an ordinary diff. Otherwise, I would have used the in-house diff command. <troubles> patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input. </troubles> <more troubles> Tracked branch, applying changes... error: bad signature error: verify header failed read_cache: Invalid argument error: bad signature error: verify header failed error: bad signature error: verify header failed </more troubles> Anyway, it's late, and I'm sure there is an easy fix to the above. Here is a patch which provides the comment lines in the associated script files when the git help command is invoked with an argument thusly: [EMAIL PROTECTED] git-pasky-new]$ ./git help merge Merge a branch to the current tree. Copyright (c) Petr Baudis, 2005 Takes a parameter identifying the branch to be merged. Optional "-b base_commit" parameter specifies the base for the merge. "-a" parameter may come first to tell git merge to check out the full tree to the merge tree. It creates a new ,,merge/ directory, which is git-controlled but has only the changed files checked out. You then have to examine it and then do git commit, which will also automatically bring your working tree up-to-date. --------- This patch will provide the comment lines in the shell script associated with the command, cleaned up a bit for presentation. BUGS: This will also print any comments in the entire file, which may not be desired. If a command name and shell script filename do not follow the usual convention, this won't work, e.g. ci for commit. Signed-off-by: Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- gp-newest-orig/git 2005-04-17 22:16:55.000000000 -0600 +++ gp-newest/git 2005-04-17 22:19:49.000000000 -0600 @@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ help () { + +command=$1 +scriptfile=git$command.sh + +if [ ! $command ]; then cat <<__END__ The GIT scripted toolkit $(gitversion.sh) @@ -48,7 +53,10 @@ update COMMIT_ID version +Additional help is available with: git help COMMAND + Note that these expressions can be used interchangably as "ID"s: + empty string (current HEAD) local (the local branch if tracking a remote one) remote name (as registered with git addremote) @@ -57,6 +65,10 @@ commit object hash (as returned by commit-id) tree object hash (accepted only by some commands) __END__ +fi +if [ ! $scriptfile = "git.sh" ]; then +grep ^# $scriptfile | grep -v "!/bin" | cut -c 2- +fi } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html