Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] fmt-merge-msg: Update fmt-merge-msg and merge-config documentation

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:36:56 +0530

Hi Jakub,

Jakub Narebski writes:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Update the documentation of fmt-merge-msg and merge-config to reflect
> > the fact that `merge.log` can either be a boolean or integer option
> > now, instead of just a boolean.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt |   20 +++++++++-----------
> >  Documentation/merge-config.txt      |    8 ++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
> > index 78c8a6d..720af64 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
> > @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-fmt-merge-msg - Produce a merge commit message
> >  SYNOPSIS
> >  --------
> >  [verse]
> > -'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log | --no-log] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
> > -'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log | --no-log] -F <file>
> > +'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log=<n> | --no-log] < $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
> > +'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log=<n> | --no-log] -F <file>
> 
> Shouldn't it be
> 
>   +'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>] | --no-log] -F <file>
> 
> i.e. isn't <n> in '--log' optional?

Hm, I think I found a bug in the option parser. Currently writing a patch.

$ git fmt-merge-msg --log < .git/FETCH_HEAD
error: option `log' requires a value

$ git fmt-merge-msg --log= < .git/FETCH_HEAD
$ # Works

-- Ram