From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Cc: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rev-list.txt: prune options in synopsis
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:11:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191011161112.GA19741@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9e7fbd6-7ad6-bce9-1e17-6391ab3e0630@iee.email>
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 05:02:33PM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:
> Another case, of a different style, is that of `git bundle --all` which does
> need mentioning that particular rev-list option as a major usage (I couldn't
> manage to understand the three layers of man page that needed reading).
>
> I had proposed a patch many years ago [1] but the feedback wasn't positive,
> though my SO question continues [2] to get votes.
Yeah, I agree that "git bundle" could be more clear about this. I think
just adding an example like this might help:
# generate a bundle similar to what "git clone" would produce
git bundle create file.bundle --branches --tags
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-11 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-05 0:13 [PATCH] git-rev-list.txt: prune options in synopsis Denton Liu
2019-10-05 9:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-11 6:04 ` Jeff King
2019-10-11 16:02 ` Philip Oakley
2019-10-11 16:11 ` Jeff King [this message]
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