From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Ignacy Gawedzki" <ignacy.gawedzki@green-communications.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ls-remote: remove documentation for custom -h option
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:54:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YU4QxcORBBR01iV8@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210924171113.GA3311029@szeder.dev>
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 07:11:13PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
> > index 492e573856f..6e241640bd9 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
> > @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ commit IDs.
> >
> > OPTIONS
> > -------
> > --h::
>
> The description of this option contains the following:
>
> Note that git ls-remote -h used without anything else on the command
> line gives help, consistent with other git subcommands.
Yup. That comes from this thread discussing an identical patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/b0397b3285eab3448a3fd5dd2c50abb9@pascalroeleven.nl/
which in turn references more discussion of this behavior:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqk1ztmkbn.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/
It's gross and weird, but kept for backwards compatibility.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-24 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-24 14:19 Wrong option -h in grep, ls-remote, and show-ref Ignacy Gawedzki
2021-09-24 16:51 ` [PATCH 0/3] show-ref, ls-remote, grep: fix -h handling Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-24 16:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] show-ref: remove unused custom handling of -h Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-24 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-24 20:53 ` René Scharfe
2021-09-24 21:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-24 16:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] ls-remote: remove documentation for custom -h option Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-24 17:11 ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-09-24 17:54 ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-09-24 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-24 16:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] grep: pass PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELP, fix odd -h handling Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-24 18:12 ` Wrong option -h in grep, ls-remote, and show-ref Junio C Hamano
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