[RFC] Concise vs comprehensive help - do we need both?

[Ben Finney]

Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net> writes:

> I'd be just as happy not adding -? and making -h be concise help
> while "bzr help xxx" gave the full story. Would that be better?

I would expect ‘-h’ and ‘--help’ to be synonymous, and to default to
concise help.

Multi-page verbosity should not be something associated with a
commonly-used option like ‘--help’, but rather something that
indicates it's verbose, such as ‘--help --verbose’ or ‘--help --long’.

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