RenĂ© Scharfe <[email protected]> writes:

> Am 08.01.2015 um 18:57 schrieb Alexander Kuleshov:
>> git remote show doesn't use -v/--verbose option
>
> Hmm, but it does?
>
>       $ git version
>       git version 2.2.1
>       $ git remote show
>       origin
>       $ git remote -v show
>       origin  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git (fetch)
>       origin  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git (push)
>
> Perhaps you meant the following variant?  The changed line documents
> the one above, though (-v before show).
>
>       $ git remote show -v
>       error: unknown switch `v'
>       usage: git remote show [<options>] <name>
>
>           -n                    do not query remotes

Ahh, I misread the patch.  Thanks.

>> diff --git a/builtin/remote.c b/builtin/remote.c
>> index 46ecfd9..978c645 100644
>> --- a/builtin/remote.c
>> +++ b/builtin/remote.c
>> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ static const char * const builtin_remote_usage[] = {
>>      N_("git remote rename <old> <new>"),
>>      N_("git remote remove <name>"),
>>      N_("git remote set-head <name> (-a | --auto | -d | --delete 
>> |<branch>)"),
>> -    N_("git remote [-v | --verbose] show [-n] <name>"),
>> +    N_("git remote show [-n] <name>"),
>>      N_("git remote prune [-n | --dry-run] <name>"),
>>      N_("git remote [-v | --verbose] update [-p | --prune] [(<group> | 
>> <remote>)...]"),
>>      N_("git remote set-branches [--add] <name> <branch>..."),
>>

I however have a bit larger question.  Does it make sense to have
[-v/--verbose] in front of some but not all of the subcommands?

For example, the above snippet gives me an impression that

    $ git remote -v prune -n origin

should not work, but that does not seem to be the case.
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