From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: it-developer@abelardolg.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A suggestion: more readable human commands
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:55:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8c7wdes.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa2e886dd03a26c945d9deffe6f96d48@abelardolg.com> (it-developer@abelardolg.com's message of "Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:51:36 +0200")
On Jun 15 2021, it-developer@abelardolg.com wrote:
> To merge a single file from one branch to another:
>
> git checkout <branch_name> <path_to_file> --patch
>
> would be like more readable human like this:
>
> git merge <path_file> to <dst_branch>
This is ambigous if a branch or tag named <path_file> or to exists, and
the usual disambiguation using -- will not work.
Andreas.
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2021-06-15 10:51 A suggestion: more readable human commands it-developer
2021-06-15 10:59 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-06-15 11:55 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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