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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>, Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gitcli: tweak "man gitcli" for clarity
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:51:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171123135155.GA8231@sigill> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1711230241260.11944@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 02:45:44AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> > It's pretty clear to me as it is, but maybe we can write it differently.
> > Like:
> >
> >   Without a disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess. If it
> >   cannot guess (because your request is ambiguous), then it will error
> >   out.
> 
>   ok, i'll give this another try, given that there are two independent
> points to be made here:
> 
> 1) even without the "--", git can generally parse the command and do
> the right thing (or do a *valid* thing, given its heuristics)
> 
> 2) occasionally, without the "--", the command is really and truly
> ambiguous, at which point git will fail and tell you to disambiguate
> 
>   not the wording i will use, but can we agree that those are the two
> points to be made here?

Yep, I think so.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-23 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-21 21:27 [PATCH v2] gitcli: tweak "man gitcli" for clarity Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-21 21:45 ` Kevin Daudt
2017-11-21 21:47   ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-21 22:04     ` Kevin Daudt
2017-11-21 22:12       ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-22  9:55   ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-22 10:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-22 11:19       ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-22 11:41         ` Kevin Daudt
2017-11-22 11:46           ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-23  0:03   ` Jeff King
2017-11-23  2:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-23  7:45     ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-23 13:51       ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-11-23 20:55         ` Kevin Daudt
2017-11-24  1:01           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-24 18:16             ` Jeff King
2017-11-24 18:12           ` Jeff King
2017-11-25  3:02             ` Junio C Hamano

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