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From: David Deller <david@horizon-nigh.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] git pull does not understand --strategy-option
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:27:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTiniVvLe7Wb9-OsKNb8nY23jxo-vQw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinFcob1RrOxEDDG+B6UAZGYg-smtg@mail.gmail.com>

> $ git pull --strategy=recursive --strategy-option=theirs origin master
> error: unknown option `strategy-option=theirs'
> usage: git fetch [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]]

I was able to confirm that the bug still exists in the latest version
of Git, 1.7.5. The docs say the option should work.

This affects Phing's[1] Git Pull task[2], which always outputs the
long form whenever the corresponding option is used.

David

[1] PHP build tool
[2] http://www.phing.info/docs/guide/stable/chapters/appendixes/AppendixC-OptionalTasks.html#GitPullTask

      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-27 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-26 14:06 [BUG] git pull does not understand --strategy-option David Deller
2011-04-27 18:27 ` David Deller [this message]

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