From: Techlive Zheng <techlivezheng@gmail.com>
To: Herman van Rink <rink@initfour.nl>
Cc: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [DOCBUG] git subtree synopsis needs updating
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:48:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130119054801.GA1218@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5082FE13.2000003@initfour.nl>
On 12-10-20, Herman van Rink wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 03:21 PM, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > As the examples in git-subtree.txt show, the synopsis in the same file should
> > surely get a patch along the lines of:
> >
> > -'git subtree' add -P <prefix> <commit>
> > +'git subtree' add -P <prefix> <repository> <commit>
> >
> > Failure to specify the repository (by just specifying a local commit) fails with
> > the cryptic:
> >
> > warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is deprecated; use --empty
> > fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
> >
> >
> > Furthermore, the doc paragraph for add, aside from mentionning <repository>, also
> > mentions a <refspec> which the synopsis does not show either.
> >
> >
> > As a sidenote it someone wants to do some maintainance, using "." as repository when
> > the branch to subtree-add is already locally available does not work well either
> > (fails with "could not find ref myremote/myhead").
> >
>
> The version of subtree in contrib is rather out-dated unfortunately.
You should really submit these patches here for reviewing, David is
actively maintaining this tool here.
>
> I've collected a bunch of patches in
> https://github.com/helmo/git/tree/subtree-updates
>
> The documentation issue is also fixed in there.
>
> --
>
> Met vriendelijke groet / Regards,
>
> Herman van Rink
> Initfour websolutions
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-19 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-19 13:21 [DOCBUG] git subtree synopsis needs updating Yann Dirson
2012-10-20 19:40 ` Herman van Rink
2012-10-24 14:29 ` Yann Dirson
2013-01-01 1:47 ` greened
2013-01-19 5:48 ` Techlive Zheng [this message]
2013-01-01 2:51 ` greened
2013-01-18 14:37 ` Yann Dirson
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