Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Talk about tracking third-party snapshots

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 19:18:40 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 15:07:05 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >> Michael Smith wrote:
> >> 
> >>> +You can use the gitlink:git-cherry[1] command to display the commit
> >>> +IDs that are only present on your local branch, or only on the remote
> >>> +branch, respectively:
> >> 
> >> I think git-cherry is deprecated in favor of "git log --left-right" (with
> >> appropriate format, for example '--abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline')
> 
> Not true. git-cherry is more than --left-right, as it checks
> if changesets matches, not if commit id matches.
> 
> > git log has such option?
> > 
> > $ man git-log | grep -e --left-right; echo $?
> > 1
> > $ git --version
> > git version 1.5.3.5
> 
> It has, although it is hidden in git-rev-list(1) manpage. It is a bit
> obscure corner...

I hope the new option parsing ifrastructure will take over quickly and start
to be used to generate the short help and probably even option section in the
man pages. It's unfortunately not the only option that is not mentioned in
the manual page of a command that has it.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>