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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update-index: there no longer is `apply --index-info`
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 18:43:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180808224336.GB3902@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqva8kee3t.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 02:35:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Back when we removed `git apply --index-info` in 2007, we forgot to
> adjust the documentation for update-index that reads its output.
> 
> Let's reorder the description of three formats to present the other
> two formats that are still generated by git commands before this
> format, and stop mentioning `git apply --index-info`.

Yep, this makes sense.

> ---
>  Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 15 ++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

For fun, I tried out my "doc-diff" on it, and it looks good. :)

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2018-08-08 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-08 21:35 [PATCH] update-index: there no longer is `apply --index-info` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-08 22:43 ` Jeff King [this message]

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