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From: "David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: stg branch -r instructions
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:14:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4ptczu8.fsf@lysator.liu.se> (raw)

It isn't easy to figure out how to rename a branch in stg from looking
at the help texts.

  Usage: stg branch [options] branch-name [commit-id]

  ...

    -r, --rename          rename an existing development branch

So, how do I rename branch A to B?

Reading the source, it appears that you write

  stg branch -r A B

so, the usage string is wrong. In fact, the described usage string is
only for the default action to create a new branch.

The optparse library doesn't really make it easy to describe these
kinds of options-as-subcommands, so I don't have a patch to fix it
right away. I'm not even sure how the result should look.

Maybe it would have been better to have separate stg subcommands?

  stg branch NAME [COMMIT]
  stg list-branches
  stg rename-branch OLD NEW
  ... etc ...

-- 
David Kågedal

             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-17 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-17 12:14 David Kågedal [this message]
2008-03-17 13:42 ` stg branch -r instructions Karl Hasselström

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