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

[Jari Aalto]

Denys Duchier <duchier at ps.uni-sb.de> writes:
> I'd like to point out that I did not propose that --help should fill
> the screen with pages of rambling irrelevant text; that was a
> strawman argument put up by Aaron. Of course I agree that default
> --help should be terse and to the point; I am not out of my mind. I
> merely suggested that more extensive help could also be available
> when explicitly requested; what could possibly be so controversial
> about that?

Right, I misunderstood that the default help should fit in such a
tight space :-)

Jari