From: "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble+github@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Cc: "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble+github@gmail•com>,
Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm•org.uk>,
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr•com>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] doc: clarify command equivalence comment
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2025 11:17:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30908830025a3004fa34080793b610b5fe1eef9e.1762100242.git.ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1762100242.git.ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Documentation of command parsing for :(optional) includes a terse
comment; expand it to be clearer to readers.
Suggested-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm•org.uk>
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail•com>
---
Documentation/gitcli.adoc | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.adoc b/Documentation/gitcli.adoc
index ef2a0a399d..6815d6bfb7 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.adoc
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ Options that take a filename allow a prefix `:(optional)`. For example:
----------------------------
git commit -F :(optional)COMMIT_EDITMSG
-# if COMMIT_EDITMSG does not exist, equivalent to
+# if COMMIT_EDITMSG does not exist, the above is equivalent to
git commit
----------------------------
--
2.48.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-02 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-02 16:17 [PATCH 0/5] Fixes for :(optional) path code D. Ben Knoble
2025-11-02 16:17 ` [PATCH 1/5] parseopt: fix :(optional) at command line to only ignore missing files D. Ben Knoble
2025-11-04 16:19 ` Phillip Wood
2025-11-04 17:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-11-04 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-11-04 18:24 ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-11-05 16:35 ` Phillip Wood
2025-11-06 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-11-02 16:17 ` D. Ben Knoble [this message]
2025-11-02 16:17 ` [PATCH 3/5] parseopt: use boolean type for a simple flag D. Ben Knoble
2025-11-03 5:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-11-04 16:21 ` Phillip Wood
2025-11-04 18:22 ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-11-02 16:17 ` [PATCH 4/5] config: " D. Ben Knoble
2025-11-02 16:17 ` [PATCH 5/5] parseopt: restore const qualifier to parsed filename D. Ben Knoble
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