Subject: Re: [DOCBUG] git subtree synopsis needs updating

From: Herman van Rink <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:40:03 +0200

On 10/19/2012 03:21 PM, Yann Dirson wrote:
> As the examples in git-subtree.txt show, the synopsis in the same file should
> surely get a patch along the lines of:
>
> -'git subtree' add   -P <prefix> <commit>
> +'git subtree' add   -P <prefix> <repository> <commit>
>
> Failure to specify the repository (by just specifying a local commit) fails with
> the cryptic:
>
>  warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is deprecated; use --empty
>  fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
>
>
> Furthermore, the doc paragraph for add, aside from mentionning <repository>, also
> mentions a <refspec> which the synopsis does not show either.
>
>
> As a sidenote it someone wants to do some maintainance, using "." as repository when
> the branch to subtree-add is already locally available does not work well either
> (fails with "could not find ref myremote/myhead").
>

The version of subtree in contrib is rather out-dated unfortunately.

I've collected a bunch of patches in
https://github.com/helmo/git/tree/subtree-updates

The documentation issue is also fixed in there.

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Met vriendelijke groet / Regards,

Herman van Rink
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