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From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, robbat2@gentoo.org, casey@nrlssc.navy.mil,
	avarab@gmail.com
Cc: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/4] rev-parse: update documentation of --flags and --no-flags options
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:18:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285431515-21321-4-git-send-email-jon.seymour@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285431515-21321-1-git-send-email-jon.seymour@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 341ca90..f5e6637 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -49,10 +49,20 @@ OPTIONS
 	'git rev-list' command.
 
 --flags::
-	Do not output non-flag parameters.
+	Do not output non-flag parameters which are not also revisions.
+	+
+	If specified, this option causes 'git rev-parse' to stop
+	interpreting remaining arguments as options for its own
+	consumption. As such, this option should be specified
+	after all other options that 'git rev-parse' is expected
+	to interpret.
 
 --no-flags::
 	Do not output flag parameters.
+	+
+	If both `--flags` and `--no-flags` are specified, the first
+	option specified wins and the other option is treated like
+	a non-option argument.
 
 --default <arg>::
 	If there is no parameter given by the user, use `<arg>`
-- 
1.7.3.4.g73371.dirty

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-25 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-25 16:18 [PATCH v5 0/4] rev-parse: allow --flags to output rev-parse-like flags Jon Seymour
2010-09-25 16:18 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] rev-parse: stop interpreting flags as options to rev-parse once --flags is specified Jon Seymour
2010-09-25 16:18 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] rev-parse: add tests for git rev-parse --flags Jon Seymour
2010-09-25 16:18 ` Jon Seymour [this message]
2010-09-25 16:18 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] rev-parse: make --flags imply --no-revs for remaining arguments Jon Seymour
2010-09-25 16:21   ` Jon Seymour
2010-09-26  1:24 ` [RE: v6 0/4] rev-parse: allow --flags to output rev-parse-like flags Jon Seymour

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