From: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast•ch>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Documentation: put blame/log -L in sticked form
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo27i85i.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvc0fd0la.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:11:29 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
> Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast•ch> writes:
>
>> The next patch will document gitk -L, but gitk does not understand the
>> separated form ('gitk -L :foo:bar' results in an error). Spell
>> git-blame and git-log -L, which are supposed to be "the same" option,
>> without the spaces to prevent confusion.
>
> I agree that this patch may reduce confusion locally, but if we were
> to go in this direction, we should be consistent and enforce "stuck"
> form everywhere, not just the options you happened to have passed
> thru to gitk, but other options such as "-S <revs-file>", and also
> other commands that do not have anything to do with gitk (e.g. "git
> commit -C<commit>", not "git commit -C <commit>". Otherwise you
> will give a wrong impression to readers as if they have to remember
> which ones need to use the stuck form and which ones do not.
Hmm. Do you want to go there?
(I can do it, but it'll obviously touch a lot of documentation.)
--
Thomas Rast
tr@thomasrast•ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-30 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-09 19:44 [PATCH gitk 0/4] gitk support for git log -L Thomas Rast
2013-06-09 19:44 ` [PATCH gitk 1/4] gitk: refactor per-line part of getblobdiffline and its support Thomas Rast
2013-06-09 19:44 ` [PATCH gitk 2/4] gitk: split out diff part in $commitinfo Thomas Rast
2013-06-09 19:44 ` [PATCH gitk 3/4] gitk: support showing the gathered inline diffs Thomas Rast
2013-06-09 19:44 ` [PATCH gitk 4/4] gitk: recognize -L option Thomas Rast
2013-07-23 15:19 ` [PATCH gitk 0/4] gitk support for git log -L Thomas Rast
2013-07-29 19:37 ` Thomas Rast
2013-07-29 20:07 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-07-31 13:17 ` Thomas Rast
2013-08-18 11:54 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-08-19 8:21 ` Thomas Rast
2013-08-19 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-13 6:31 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-14 5:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-20 16:57 ` [PATCH] Documentation: revamp gitk(1) Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] gitk -L Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] gitk: support -G option from the command line Thomas Rast
2013-10-30 0:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-30 6:30 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-30 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] gitk: refactor per-line part of getblobdiffline and its support Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] gitk: split out diff part in $commitinfo Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] gitk: support showing the gathered inline diffs Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] gitk: recognize -L option Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] Documentation: put blame/log -L in sticked form Thomas Rast
2013-10-30 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-30 6:29 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2013-10-30 17:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-30 18:59 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-30 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 0/5] gitk -L Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 1/5] gitk: support -G option from the command line Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 2/5] gitk: refactor per-line part of getblobdiffline and its support Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 3/5] gitk: split out diff part in $commitinfo Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 4/5] gitk: support showing the gathered inline diffs Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 5/5] gitk: recognize -L option Thomas Rast
2013-12-01 22:25 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 0/5] gitk -L Paul Mackerras
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Documentation: stuck arguments and gitk log -L Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] commit-tree: use prefixcmp instead of memcmp(..., N) Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: convert to --option=arg form where possible Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation/gitk: document -L option Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] " Thomas Rast
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