Makes git work with a pure POSIX shell (tested with bash --posix and ash).
Right now git causes ash to choke on the redundant shift on line two.
Reduces the number of system calls git makes just to do a usage
statement from 22610 to 1122, and the runtime for same from 349ms to
29ms on my x86 Linux box.
Presents a standard usage statement, and pretty prints the available
commands in a form that does not scroll off small terminals.
[jc: while shifting when $# was zero was a bug, the original
patch failed to shift when it needs to, which I fixed up.]
Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The "git" script is just shorthand: "git xyz <args>" will just execute
"git-xyz-script <args>", which is useful for people used to the CVS
naming convention. So "git log" will run the new git-log-script, which
is just a wrapper around the new pretty-printing git-rev-list.
Cheesy.
