12 Factor CLI Apps
Only a web programmer could believe that man pages "just aren't used that often". It drives me nuts when compiled cli programs don't have a man page. It says to me that the author of the program doesn't know Unix conventions or doesn't care enough to put the effort into meeting his or her users where they are, and so I'm gonna have to be careful about how I use the program lest it do something unexpected. Use man pages.<p>The awscli is just terrible in this respect. There's no man page for 'aws' so I say "aws --help". It then literally tells me "To see help text, you can run: aws help". OpenShift's 'oc' sucks at this only a little less, with no man pages and for some inexplicable reason you can only get a list of global options in a dedicated global options help subcommand instead of at the bottom of every help page. The documentation system for 'git' on the other hand is a work of art. Pure beauty.