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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcli.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt index b9fd3770a6..c9e68582a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt @@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ OPTIONS Limit to only refs/heads and refs/tags, respectively. These options are _not_ mutually exclusive; when given both, references stored in refs/heads and refs/tags are - displayed. + displayed. Note that `git ls-remote -h` used without + anything else on the command line gives help, consistent + with other git subcommands. --refs:: Do not show peeled tags or pseudorefs like HEAD in the output. diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index 592e06d839..06608ea205 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ usage: git describe [<options>] <commit-ish>* --long always use long format --abbrev[=<n>] use <n> digits to display SHA-1s --------------------------------------------- ++ +Note that some subcommand (e.g. `git grep`) may behave differently +when there are things on the command line other than `-h`, but `git +subcmd -h` without anything else on the command line is meant to +consistently give the usage. --help-all:: Some Git commands take options that are only used for plumbing or that |