Re: How should help work (refactoring command options)

2007-09-02 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 9/2/07, Todd O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would people feel about going to an svn style for help? My specific > proposal is that 'help' would be added as a possible command. > > $ django-admin.py help > > would list all possible commands. > > $ django-admin.py help command_name > >

Re: How should help work (refactoring command options)

2007-09-02 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 9/3/07, Todd O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How would people feel about going to an svn style for help? My specific > proposal is that 'help' would be added as a possible command. +1. When there were only a few commands, a single help page made sense, but now that there are dozens of c

How should help work (refactoring command options)

2007-09-02 Thread Todd O'Bryan
Currently, $ django-admin.py --help returns a usage guide for every command available. It's long and lists all command options at the bottom, even though some are only appropriate for some commands. Because of this, each command has to list which options it allows separately and these appear in