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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "git cat-file <sha1>" shows usage but should not?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:18:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vprfdvnrj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090415170444.GA24717@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:04:44 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:56:05PM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>
>> Jeff King wrote:
>> > That usage message is misleading. You need to use one of -t, -s, -e, -p,
>> > or <type>. So it should perhaps just be:
>> > 
>> >   git cat-file -t|-s|-e|-p|<type> <sha1>
>> > 
>> > though that looks terribly ugly. Suggestions welcome.
>> 
>> Thanks for making that clear.  How about round or curly brackets?
>
> I think curly makes the most sense for grouping, though I still think it
> is a bit ugly. Patch is below.

Thanks.  Doesn't this remind us of $gmane/72243, by the way?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-15 16:50 "git cat-file <sha1>" shows usage but should not? Sebastian Pipping
2009-04-15 16:54 ` Jeff King
2009-04-15 16:56   ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-04-15 17:04     ` Jeff King
2009-04-15 17:18       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-04-15 17:34         ` Jeff King
2009-04-15 17:33       ` Julian Phillips
2009-04-15 17:36         ` Jeff King

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