On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:39:48AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Denton Liu <liu.den...@gmail.com> writes:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> > b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> > index 65a952fb96..2fdf9f4cf3 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> > @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules
> > SYNOPSIS
> > --------
> > [verse]
> > +'git submodule' [--quiet] [--cached]
> > 'git submodule' [--quiet] 'add' [<options>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
> > 'git submodule' [--quiet] 'status' [--cached] [--recursive] [--]
> > [<path>...]
> > 'git submodule' [--quiet] 'init' [--] [<path>...]
> > @@ -28,6 +29,9 @@ For more information about submodules, see
> > linkgit:gitsubmodules[7].
> >
> > COMMANDS
> > --------
> > +With no arguments, the default command is 'status'. Several subcommands
> > are
> > +available to perform operations on the submodules.
>
> I am not sure if "default is status" is really true.
>
> $ git submodule status --recursive
> $ git submodule --recursive
> usage: git submodule [--quiet] ...
> or: ...
> $ git submodule -- sha1collisiondetection
> usage: git submodule [--quiet] ...
> or: ...
>
> If 'status' were truly the default, wouldn't the form without any
> subcommand take any option and parameter the 'status' subcommand
> would accept?
This is very similar to git-remote. Its default command is 'show' but
doing something like 'git remote -n' fails, even though
'git remote show -n' succeeds.
Would it make sense to revise this back to
With no arguments, shows the status of existing submodules.
which was the phrasing I used in v1? (If this is the case, I'd also like
to drop the first patch of this series.)
Thanks,
Denton
