clap/examples/git-derive.md
Ed Page c90a4eabae fix(help): Make output more dense
In looking at other help output, I noticed that they use two spaces, in
place of clap's 4, and it doesn't suffer from legibility.  If it
doesn't make the output worse, let's go ahead and make it as dense so we
fit more content on the screen.

This is a part of #4132
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This requires enabling the [derive feature flag][crate::_features].

Git is an example of several common subcommand patterns.

Help:

$ git-derive
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A fictional versioning CLI

Usage: git-derive[EXE] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  clone  Clones repos
  diff   Compare two commits
  push   pushes things
  add    adds things
  stash  
  help   Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help information

$ git-derive help
A fictional versioning CLI

Usage: git-derive[EXE] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  clone  Clones repos
  diff   Compare two commits
  push   pushes things
  add    adds things
  stash  
  help   Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help information

$ git-derive help add
adds things

Usage: git-derive[EXE] add <PATH>...

Arguments:
  <PATH>...  Stuff to add

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help information

A basic argument:

$ git-derive add
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adds things

Usage: git-derive[EXE] add <PATH>...

Arguments:
  <PATH>...  Stuff to add

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help information

$ git-derive add Cargo.toml Cargo.lock
Adding ["Cargo.toml", "Cargo.lock"]

Default subcommand:

$ git-derive stash -h
Usage: git-derive[EXE] stash [OPTIONS]
       git-derive[EXE] stash <COMMAND>

Commands:
  push   
  pop    
  apply  
  help   Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -m, --message <MESSAGE>  
  -h, --help               Print help information

$ git-derive stash push -h
Usage: git-derive[EXE] stash push [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -m, --message <MESSAGE>  
  -h, --help               Print help information

$ git-derive stash pop -h
Usage: git-derive[EXE] stash pop [STASH]

Arguments:
  [STASH]  

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help information

$ git-derive stash -m "Prototype"
Pushing StashPush { message: Some("Prototype") }

$ git-derive stash pop
Popping None

$ git-derive stash push -m "Prototype"
Pushing StashPush { message: Some("Prototype") }

$ git-derive stash pop
Popping None

External subcommands:

$ git-derive custom-tool arg1 --foo bar
Calling out to "custom-tool" with ["arg1", "--foo", "bar"]

Last argument:

$ git-derive diff --help
Compare two commits

Usage: git-derive[EXE] diff [COMMIT] [COMMIT] [-- <PATH>]

Arguments:
  [COMMIT]  
  [COMMIT]  
  [PATH]    

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help information

$ git-derive diff
Diffing stage..worktree 

$ git-derive diff ./src
Diffing stage..worktree ./src

$ git-derive diff HEAD ./src
Diffing HEAD..worktree ./src

$ git-derive diff HEAD~~ -- HEAD
Diffing HEAD~~..worktree HEAD