Re: [PATCH] perf, record: Ammend option summaries

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jun 11 2015 - 04:46:40 EST


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:27:43PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 04:48:50PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
> >
> > Because there's too many options and I cannot read, I frequently get
> > confused between -c and -P, and try to do things like:
> >
> > perf record -P 50000 -- foo
> >
> > Which does not work; try and make the option description slightly longer
> > and hopefully less confusing.
>
> Thanks, I'll check and update tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt,
> i.e. the man page.

Thanks, I always forget that stuff even exists. I further get totally
annoyed every time I do: perf record --help and it vomits on me.

Could we please make -h and --help do the exact same thing?
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