From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Satyam Sharma" Subject: Re: Confusing language in man page Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:57:52 +0530 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 14 22:27:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I9oDc-0000qS-Oe for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:27:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760989AbXGNU1y (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:27:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762325AbXGNU1y (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:27:54 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:33129 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760989AbXGNU1x (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:27:53 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d32so1504372pye for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:27:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AzUq2awgTH3uRXwD/kpRwN0jtSrDMte2P19pDWH/0OLJly5IRHXo80ccQ9RmH9LEPX4stYA0m448b6EhFZel8Z/Tij/JPZuXSxIsDgDxEsujnj7AoxNVC3wfCHYSvFJ7Cl+1ib5YNKmhcZru5i1k0sOblqKIDFcVxA8mBCP0KE4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BKqQLeKnq1aC5orw1tsFvcu4TXQoO4bEZOqiU9iFnrubJaVsaMdQ0mLKGAs0fWKi7lAywIw4aX1ltC31cMGz22HEVwHhXaQNBKX/L2l22LcZtQ0Jm+C1SfvNcx0Bg1kRVboxv0OvJCELr+IdYkFGBgfXvOG3RrqTqxhu4WqbkYM= Received: by 10.142.187.2 with SMTP id k2mr214534wff.1184444872172; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.83.19 with HTTP; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:27:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 7/14/07, Satyam Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > [ I'm using Fedora's latest package. ] I should probably clarify: $ git --version git version 1.5.0.6 Perhaps man pages / functionality have been updated significantly since that, so let me know if that's the case. > From git-checkout(1) and git-branch(1): > > -l Create the new branch's ref log. This activates recording of > all changes to made the > branch ref, enabling use of date > > I'd be glad if someone could explain that a bit more verbosely > in the man page > (or just here in a reply), or at least make that grammatically > correct/readable :-) Ok, another confusion I hit (as I learn more about git) tonight: * What exactly is the use of git-diff's "-p" option? $ git diff and $ git diff -p produce the same output / do the same thing -- the man page mentions "Generate patch (see section on generating patches)" but I couldn't find said section (is that referring to some other man page?) * On my system, doing: $ git diff with no outstanding changes in my current working tree produces some bogus newlines, throwing the prompt to the bottom of the xterm window. This sounds like weird / undesirable behaviour and I have a feeling must already be fixed in latest git (?) Thanks, Satyam