Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] git-merge: clarify "usage" by adding "-m <msg>"

From: Sergey Organov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 23:41:50 +0300

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> [email-masked] writes:
>
>> From: Sergey Organov <[email-masked]>
>>
>> "-m <msg>" is one of essential distinctions between obsolete
>> invocation form and the recent one. Add it to the "usage" returned by
>> 'git merge -h' for more clarity.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  builtin/merge.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
>> index a8b57c7..0e367ba 100644
>> --- a/builtin/merge.c
>> +++ b/builtin/merge.c
>> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct strategy {
>>  };
>>  
>>  static const char * const builtin_merge_usage[] = {
>> -	N_("git merge [<options>] [<commit>...]"),
>> +	N_("git merge [<options>] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...]"),
>>  	N_("git merge [<options>] <msg> HEAD <commit>"),
>>  	N_("git merge --abort"),
>>  	NULL
>
> While this is not wrong per-se, as the deprecated form will go away
> soon, I hope you do not mind if I had to drop this one from the
> series to avoid merge conflicts to 'pu' (I do not know how bad the
> conflict would be yet; I am just reviewing in my MUA).

Yeah, sure. I was not aware obsolete form description is to go away
soon.