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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-archive: add '-o' as a alias for '--output'
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:34:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4or6sngc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252863407-2598-1-git-send-email-dpotapov@gmail.com> (Dmitry Potapov's message of "Sun\, 13 Sep 2009 21\:36\:46 +0400")

Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:

> The '-o' option is commonly used in many tools to specify the output file.
> Typing '--output' every time is a bit too long to be a practical alternative
> to redirecting output. But specifying the output name has the advantage of
> making possible to guess the desired output format by filename extension.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
> ---
> ...
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
> index 92444dd..f7a3b95 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS
>  --prefix=<prefix>/::
>  	Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
>  
> +-o::
>  --output=<file>::
>  	Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.

I think this patch is very reasonable, except for this hunk, which would
want to say "-o <file>::" instead.  I'll see if there are comments from
others and if there is none, apply this patch with that minor tweak.

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-13 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-09 21:27 obnoxious CLI complaints Brendan Miller
2009-09-09 21:54 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-09 22:06   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-09-10 16:50     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 18:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 22:19         ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11  3:15         ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-10 19:46       ` John Tapsell
2009-09-10 20:17         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-10 20:23         ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 22:04           ` John Tapsell
2009-09-10 22:49             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 23:19               ` demerphq
2009-09-11  0:37                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-11  0:18               ` John Tapsell
2009-09-11  0:25                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10  0:09   ` Brendan Miller
2009-09-10  1:25     ` Todd Zullinger
2009-09-10  9:16     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 18:18       ` Eric Schaefer
2009-09-10 18:52         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-10 22:19       ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11 14:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-11 22:01           ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11 22:16             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-12 10:31     ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 18:32       ` John Tapsell
2009-09-12 21:44         ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 22:21           ` John Tapsell
2009-09-12 22:35             ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-09-12 22:43             ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 23:08               ` John Tapsell
2009-09-13  2:47                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 17:36                   ` [PATCH 1/2] git-archive: add '-o' as a alias for '--output' Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 17:36                     ` [PATCH 2/2] teach git-archive to auto detect the output format Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 18:52                       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 20:17                         ` [PATCH v2 " Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 21:27                           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 18:34                     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-09-13 20:13                       ` [PATCH v2 1/2] git-archive: add '-o' as a alias for '--output' Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-17  0:48                   ` obnoxious CLI complaints Brendan Miller
2009-09-17  1:27                     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-09 21:58 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-09 22:58 ` Pierre Habouzit
2009-09-10  1:32 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-10 18:54   ` Matthieu Moy

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