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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list-options.txt: use correct directional reference
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:29:28 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4lqle5tz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171026152637.21629-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com> ("SZEDER Gábor"'s message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:26:37 +0200")

SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:

> The descriptions of the options '--parents', '--children' and
> '--graph' say "see 'History Simplification' below", although the
> referred section is in fact above the description of these options.
>
> Send readers in the right direction by saying "above" instead of
> "below".
>
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
> ---

Thanks.  

It turns out that this is not a recent regression, but was done at
f98fd436 ("git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: put option blocks in
proper order", 2011-03-08), which moved Commit Formatting and Diff
Formatting sections, which used to appear very early, to near the
end of the sequence.

>  Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> index 7d860bfca..13501e155 100644
> --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> @@ -799,11 +799,11 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
>  
>  --parents::
>  	Print also the parents of the commit (in the form "commit parent...").
> -	Also enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below.
> +	Also enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' above.
>  
>  --children::
>  	Print also the children of the commit (in the form "commit child...").
> -	Also enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below.
> +	Also enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' above.
>  
>  ifdef::git-rev-list[]
>  --timestamp::
> @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ you would get an output like this:
>  	to be drawn properly.
>  	Cannot be combined with `--no-walk`.
>  +
> -This enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below.
> +This enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' above.
>  +
>  This implies the `--topo-order` option by default, but the
>  `--date-order` option may also be specified.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-10-27  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-26 15:26 [PATCH] rev-list-options.txt: use correct directional reference SZEDER Gábor
2017-10-27  1:29 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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