Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add backing file option to qemu-img create help.

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

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Am 12.05.2014 um 17:05 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 05/12/2014 06:35 AM, Mike Day wrote:
> > For the create subcommand the backing file (-b) option is documented
> > on-line but not in the binary. Add it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Day <ncmike@ncultra.org>
> > ---
> >  qemu-img-cmds.hx | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/qemu-img-cmds.hx b/qemu-img-cmds.hx
> > index d029609..7724709 100644
> > --- a/qemu-img-cmds.hx
> > +++ b/qemu-img-cmds.hx
> > @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ STEXI
> >  ETEXI
> >  
> >  DEF("create", img_create,
> > -    "create [-q] [-f fmt] [-o options] filename [size]")
> > +    "create [-q] [-f fmt] [-b backing-file] [-o options] filename [size]")
> >  STEXI
> > -@item create [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [-o @var{options}] @var{filename} [@var{size}]
> > +@item create [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [-b @var{backing_file}] [-o @var{options}] @var{filename} [@var{size}]
> 
> There are two spellings for this:
> 
> -b file
> -o backing_file=file
> 
> is -o considered to be preferred over -b, as an explanation for why it
> is not documented?

Yes, it is. -b was documented before -o backing_file existed. Commit
8063d0fe removed it.

Kevin

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