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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-08-22 11:53:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-08-22 11:53:25 -0700 |
| commit | 210106b4255b0ec314d160fef15bb38af119e4f3 (patch) | |
| tree | d3f3453fcd0468f60813e64c666881d03d23371e | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jc/maint-rev-list-topo-doc' (diff) | |
| parent | gitcli: describe abbreviation of long options (diff) | |
| download | tgif-210106b4255b0ec314d160fef15bb38af119e4f3.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jc/maint-abbrev-option-cli'
We did not document that many commands take unique prefix
abbreviations of long options (e.g. "--option" may be the only flag
that the command accepts that begin with "--opt", in which case you
can give "--opt") anywhere easy to find for new people.
* jc/maint-abbrev-option-cli:
gitcli: describe abbreviation of long options
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcli.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index ea17f7a53b..3e72a5d68e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ scripting git: `git log -1 HEAD` but write `git log -1 HEAD --`; the former will not work if you happen to have a file called `HEAD` in the work tree. + * many commands allow a long option "--option" to be abbreviated + only to their unique prefix (e.g. if there is no other option + whose name begins with "opt", you may be able to spell "--opt" to + invoke the "--option" flag), but you should fully spell them out + when writing your scripts; later versions of Git may introduce a + new option whose name shares the same prefix, e.g. "--optimize", + to make a short prefix that used to be unique no longer unique. + ENHANCED OPTION PARSER ---------------------- |