[geluso]

I like the one called "The Hobgoblin." The student asks "why don't all these commands follow the same pattern?"

It doesn't make sense to my why the three "view" commands have different nomenclatures, but it /sort of/ makes sense that the two destructive ones have different syntaxes. It would hurt to think you're deleting a remote reference and accidentally deleting a local branch.

What's the point of the Master throwing himself off the railing when the novice runs `git -h branch`?

I'm running it and git responds "unknown option: -h" then displays a short version of the help menu. Maybe it is a joke on showing the short help menu even when using incorrect syntax?

[aelred]

I think it's just another inconsistency: `git --help branch` gives the long help for `git branch`, but `git -h branch` says "unknown option: -h".

[boublepop]

Hopefully someone can correct me if wrong, but I assumed that the joke was that 7 years ago in 2013 if you ran “got - branch” the cli would crash in some way. Though I would love to hear an explanation for someone who knows for sure what the intention of the joke was.