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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: Add missing "-n" (dry-run) option to reflog man page
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:45:22 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1711220543450.10299@DESKTOP-1GPMCEJ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy3mysii0.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
>
> >   i appreciate the need for brevity, but this just takes us back
> > to, is there a standard for man pages, given how they bounce
> > around all over the place?
> >
> >   i tossed in that missing "-n" option for "man git-reflog" since
> > it was the *only* option missing from the SYNOPSIS,...
>
> Don't we also take "-v" for "--verbose"?
>
> I am not sure what you meant by "bounce around", but by adding "-n"
> without adding "-v", doesn't this patch worsen the situation by
> making the result even locally inconsistent?

  i don't believe "git reflog" supports "-v", only "--verbose", or am
i misreading the source?

rday

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-22 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-21 15:39 [PATCH v2] doc: Add missing "-n" (dry-run) option to reflog man page Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-22  3:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-22  7:59   ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-22 10:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-22 10:45       ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2017-11-22 16:03         ` Junio C Hamano

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