From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>,
Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>,
Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com>,
Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/16] tag: change misleading --list <pattern> documentation
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:15:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwpbhhv36.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX70pb=h3nPKDY-rcM3rjh9SNYUzUhxA3Hu0-Jph8ODxdg@mail.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:32:46 +0100")
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes, all of this is correct, but not relevant to what I'm describing
> in the commit message, because I'm making a documentation change and
> describing how you *would* expect git to work if you read the
> *documentation*, not if you read the code.
OK.
>>> +-l::
>>> +--list::
>>> + Activate the list mode. `git tag <pattern>` would try to create a
>>
>> Dont say <pattern> on this line. It is `git tag <name>`.
>
> Makes sense, but this is something I copied as-is from git-branch.txt,
> which then has the same issue, so v3 will have yet another related
> patch...
I think you'd rather want to make it a single patch to be applied
and merged independently, as a fix to a documentation bug we somehow
noticed that is unrelated to the main theme of what we were working
to perfect ;-)
>> The "-l/-d/-v" options follow the last-one-wins rule, no? Perhaps
>> also show how this one works in this test (while retitling it)?
>>
>> git tag -d -v -l
>
> This will fail as tested for in "tag: add more incompatibles mode
> tests". We weren't testing "-d" with "-l", or this combination, I'll
> add both to the tests.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-22 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-21 12:58 [PATCH v2 00/16] Various changes to the "tag" command & related Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] tag doc: move the description of --[no-]merged earlier Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] tag doc: split up the --[no-]merged documentation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] tag doc: reword --[no-]merged to talk about commits, not tips Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] ref-filter: make combining --merged & --no-merged an error Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] ref-filter: add test for --contains on a non-commit Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] tag: remove a TODO item from the test suite Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] tag tests: fix a typo in a test description Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] for-each-ref: partly change <object> to <commit> in help Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 18:50 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 19:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] tag: add more incompatibles mode tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 18:58 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] tag: change misleading --list <pattern> documentation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-22 19:32 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-22 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-22 22:08 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-22 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-22 22:36 ` Jeff King
2017-03-22 23:43 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-23 0:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-22 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] tag: implicitly supply --list given another list-like option Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] tag: change --point-at to default to HEAD Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] ref-filter: add --no-contains option to tag/branch/for-each-ref Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 19:03 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] ref-filter: reflow recently changed branch/tag/for-each-ref docs Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 19:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] tag: implicitly supply --list given the -n option Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 19:11 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 19:33 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] tag: add tests for --with and --without Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 18:22 ` [PATCH v2 00/16] Various changes to the "tag" command & related Junio C Hamano
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