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From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@suse.cz>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] man: git pull -r is a short for --rebase
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:45:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120816194552.GA3167@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1uj63iyx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:22:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if this is worth it, as it comes from a natural
> "abbreviated options" support, i.e.
> 
> 	-r|--r|--re|--reb|--reba|--rebas|--rebase)
> 		rebase=true

I sent the patch as a (newcomer) friend today asked if it's intentional
that -r is undocumented in 'man git-pull'.

> And I do not think we particularly want to do
> 
>     +-r::
>     +--r::
>     +--re::
>     +--reb::
>     +--reba::
>     +--rebas::
>      --rebase::
>             Rebase the current...
> 
> for obvious reasons.

I agree, however, we already document -q and --quiet, or -v and
--verbose in the same manpage, so I think it would be consistent to have
-r there as well.

Thanks,

Miklos

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-16 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-16  9:50 [PATCH] man: git pull -r is a short for --rebase Miklos Vajna
2012-08-16 16:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-16 19:45   ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
2012-08-16 20:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-16 20:26       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-16 19:59   ` Philip Oakley
2012-08-16 20:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-16 22:36       ` Philip Oakley
2012-08-17  6:19         ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2012-08-17 18:22           ` Philip Oakley
2012-08-17 19:48             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-17 20:22               ` Philip Oakley
2012-08-16 20:52   ` Johannes Sixt
2012-08-16 21:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-16 21:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-17  5:38         ` Miklos Vajna
2012-08-17  6:18           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-17  7:04             ` Miklos Vajna
2012-08-17  7:32               ` Junio C Hamano

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