> People who already know what the command does can use that short summary
to remind themselves of the available options.

Which options do you mean? My point was that it doesn't document any
options.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 5:57 PM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 5:28 PM will....@gmail.com
> <will.fau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ❯ go clean -h
> > usage: go clean [clean flags] [build flags] [packages]
> > Run 'go help clean' for details.
> >
> > This just tells me to invoke another help command.
> >
> > The flags package has the opinion that command help should print the doc
> for flags. Shouldn't we do that for go clean -h too?
>
> The intent is that "go clean -h" prints a short summary.  People who
> already know what the command does can use that short summary to
> remind themselves of the available options.  For people who don't know
> what the command does, there is "go help clean".
>
> Ian
>

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