08:16 < abentley> Better phrasing: 'what circumstances should cause us to produce a working tree in a repository branch'?

[Jari Aalto]

Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:

>>> create things, and that makes it also easier to lookup the copious
>>> --help that
>>>should be associated with it.
>> People don't like copious help.  They like direct, to-the-point help.
>
> I agree with Aaron. Big help does not fit on 45/50-lines terminal screen
> (but often people forced to use even 25-lines terminal screen), and it
> force to use pager all the time that somewhat boring.  Not so good as
> short help that works as handy reminder.

I think it wrong assumption to require 25-line terminal to be used as
standard in todays world. Most of the systems are window- (X,
Microsoft, etc.*) enabled.

There are programs that are specifically tailored to paginate the
output.

Jari