On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:52 PM Will Faught <will.fau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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.
Oh, sorry, I see what you mean. That's true, that isn't very helpful. Want to send a patch? Ian > 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOyqgcVBDMqrEVctMSykcrgD5uCR_y%2Beu1G8PPd691%3D8jDteRQ%40mail.gmail.com.
