"Robert P. J. Day" writes:
> ok, i'm going to have to digest all that; pretty sure someone else
> will need to change the man page to clarify the apparent inconsistency
> i was referring to:
>
> SYNOPSIS
>git checkout [-p|--patch] [] [--] [...]
> DESCRIPTION
>git checkout [-p|
On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" writes:
>
> > it's simply a matter of the forms not matching between the SYNOPSIS
> > and the DESCRIPTION sections. am i making sense?
>
> I think the whole thing is wrong and the root cause is because the
> (relatively newer) descr
"Robert P. J. Day" writes:
> it's simply a matter of the forms not matching between the SYNOPSIS
> and the DESCRIPTION sections. am i making sense?
I think the whole thing is wrong and the root cause is because the
(relatively newer) description of the "--patch" mode lazily tried to
piggy-back
On Sat, 30 Sep 2017, Kevin Daudt wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 05:27:22AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > just noticed that in "man git-checkout", the SYNOPSIS contains
> > the line:
> >
> > git checkout [-p|--patch] [] [--] [...]
> >
> > implying that is optional, but further down
On Sat, 30 Sep 2017, Kevin Daudt wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 05:27:22AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > just noticed that in "man git-checkout", the SYNOPSIS contains the
> > line:
> >
> > git checkout [-p|--patch] [] [--] [...]
> >
> > implying that is optional, but further down
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 05:27:22AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> just noticed that in "man git-checkout", the SYNOPSIS contains the
> line:
>
> git checkout [-p|--patch] [] [--] [...]
>
> implying that is optional, but further down in the
> DESCRIPTION, one reads:
>
> git checkout [
just noticed that in "man git-checkout", the SYNOPSIS contains the
line:
git checkout [-p|--patch] [] [--] [...]
implying that is optional, but further down in the
DESCRIPTION, one reads:
git checkout [-p|--patch] [] [--] ...
suggesting that is required.
rday
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