From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:27:18 -0700 Message-ID: <7vk4zyuzrd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20090912103156.GA30385@dpotapov.dyndns.org> <43d8ce650909121132n76cda485ycd53a0497e397960@mail.gmail.com> <20090912214428.GB30385@dpotapov.dyndns.org> <43d8ce650909121521m3dbac12co7f5f2dcaf15190e7@mail.gmail.com> <20090912224335.GC30385@dpotapov.dyndns.org> <43d8ce650909121608t2b9c4b9bw44104acceea26e12@mail.gmail.com> <7v3a6r5znq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: John Tapsell , Dmitry Potapov , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Brendan Miller X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 17 03:27:42 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mo5me-0002yC-Kn for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:27:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755041AbZIQB1b (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:27:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754254AbZIQB1a (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:27:30 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:59764 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754200AbZIQB1a (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:27:30 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C2E53F25; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:27:32 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=Cp++sOc6XQZ/I2wVOKC0HadDUu0=; b=mbTkkj ZivCdoKhnfLEB6KHlvgO1JlOPH0V5a4q/tYlhvcH+5/s+cOmbCglBi3gXlzPwjcd aXk+yii9wB16e7HDvaDlgDdBFkuZjvyQDWN5p3FnPPInaFse9wJgfQHm3nwECqr6 hSmrxylaI90oe5uniDbhK3QoeAwe4SmvFQJLo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=nM7/s3YMSZTncj5RPwc3+gUnIfsuBgUK piU7dKGrkAbBOU7CUsDBuaodCupUalFArm5lrKeGiPcC/BV4wdjoNh2v0BCVH/Bb rkCVoLFWQGiTGSYpY34bSMGb12EhyzRcwpmiySkvxzqGxEcw+vfqEg9mlcyDI8Qb eaACBRK7vsg= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6DB53F24; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:27:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EDC4F53F23; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:27:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Brendan Miller's message of "Thu\, 17 Sep 2009 09\:48\:32 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 425E5BC0-A329-11DE-93AC-8B19076EA04E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Brendan Miller writes: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> John Tapsell writes: >> >>> Ah, the manpage examples specifically give the --format=tar though. >> >> So what? > > That looks like a manpage bug. In the version I have 1.6.4 the format > for archive is given like this: > > git archive --format= [--list] [--prefix=/] [] > [--output=] [--worktree-attributes] > [--remote= [--exec=]] sh> > [path...] > > So --format isn't marked as optional. Ahh, that would indeed be a documentation bug. 82d97da (Documentation: git-archive: mark --format as optional in summary, 2009-08-27) fixed it already, so upcoming 1.6.5 should have that fix. Thanks.