From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
"Luc Van Oostenryck" <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gc docs: change --keep-base-pack to --keep-largest-pack
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 11:43:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtutisdfk.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201120115522.23617-1-avarab@gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:55:21 +0100")
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> The --keep-base-pack option never existed in git.git. It was the name
> for the --keep-largest-pack option in earlier revisions of that series
> before it landed as ae4e89e549 ("gc: add --keep-largest-pack option",
> 2018-04-15).
Is it a sign that this hasn't been used by or useful to our users
that this documentation bug did not get noticed by anybody for the
past 30 months, I wonder.
"git gc -h" does report the option with correct name, which is the
beauty of automation ;-)
Thanks, both. Will queue, together with [2/2] which also makes
sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-21 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-06 21:49 gc docs: git gc --keep-base-pack ? Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-11-20 11:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] gc docs: change --keep-base-pack to --keep-largest-pack Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-21 19:43 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-11-23 10:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-20 11:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] gc: rename keep_base_pack variable for --keep-largest-pack Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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