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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Sverre Rabbelier" <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Artur Skawina" <art.08.09@gmail.com>,
	"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: explain "git branch --with"
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:52:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100907055209.GT1182@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v39tmtpci.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> It was originally called --with.  I wrote it to help me in the exact use
> case in this thread, and the option was naturally named --with, as the
> request I wanted to make was "Give me branches _with_ this commit, so that
> I know which ones I need to rewind before reintegrating and publishing".
> 
> Somehow people wanted to see an option with a longer name, but by that
> time my fingers were well trained, so I kept "--with" but didn't bother
> advertising duplicated options.

More precisely, it is advertised by "git branch --help-all" but not
the manual or "git branch -h".

How about adding it to the man page so people can look up this option
after encountering it in the wild?

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-branch.txt |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 1940256..f479e2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ start-point is either a local or remote branch.
 	branch points to is not changed.
 
 --contains <commit>::
+--with <commit>::
 	Only list branches which contain the specified commit.
 
 --merged [<commit>]::
-- 
1.7.2.3

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-07  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-05 20:34 Determining commit reachability Artur Skawina
2010-09-06  3:17 ` Jeff King
2010-09-06  5:04   ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-06  6:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-06 20:45   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-06 20:53     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 21:05       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-06 23:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-07  5:52           ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-09-07 10:51             ` [PATCH] Documentation: explain "git branch --with" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-09 22:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-07 13:04           ` Determining commit reachability Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-09-07 13:07             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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