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Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:14:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Oswald Buddenhagen Cc: Tian Yuchen , git@vger.kernel.org, ben.knoble@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] diff: document -U without as using default context In-Reply-To: (Oswald Buddenhagen's message of "Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:15:58 +0100") References: <20260309172719.125419-1-cat@malon.dev> <20260310053032.129327-1-cat@malon.dev> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:14:24 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Oswald Buddenhagen writes: >>Since we are retaining this fallback behavior for backward compatibility, >>update the documentation to explicitly state that '' can be omitted >>for the short option '-U'. >> > i'd replace that with: > > Hence we retain this fallback behavior for backward compatibility, but > document it as such. > >>+ (`-U` without `` is accepted as a silent synonym for `-p` due >>+ to a historical accident). >> > "silently accepted as a synonym" would be much more natural. An excellent suggestion. Thanks.