Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Update the style of 'git-describe' command.

[Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>  $ git describe -h
>> -usage: git-describe [options] <committish>*
>> +usage: git describe [options] <commit-ish>*
>
> I think the first half of this line is correct but the other half is not.
>
> $ git grep --color -c -e committish -- Documentation/
> Documentation/git-describe.txt:6
> Documentation/git-fast-import.txt:8
> Documentation/git-name-rev.txt:1
> Documentation/git-shortlog.txt:1
> Documentation/gitcli.txt:1
> Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt:1
>
> $ git grep --color -c -e commit-ish -- Documentation/
> Documentation/git-rebase.txt:1
> Documentation/git.txt:2
I did this:
git$ grep --color -n "commit-ish" *.c
builtin-revert.c:29:	"git revert [options] <commit-ish>",
builtin-revert.c:34:	"git cherry-pick [options] <commit-ish>",
builtin-send-pack.c:368:		 * (3) if both new and old are commit-ish,
and new is a
remote.c:1388:	/* Both new and old must be commit-ish and new is descendant of

git$ grep --color -n "committish" *.c
builtin-describe.c:13:	"git describe [options] <committish>*",
builtin-merge.c:885:	 * committish that is the same as HEAD there instead.