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[PATCH 2/2] Be consistent in switch usage for tar

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henrik@austad.us <henrik@austad.us>
Date
Jan 5, 2009, 15:25 UTC
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From: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>

tar handles switches with and witouth preceding '-', but the documentation should be consistent nonetheless.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 5242a7e..19f571a 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ $ git init
 If you have some initial content (say, a tarball):
 
 -------------------------------------------------
-$ tar -xzvf project.tar.gz
+$ tar xzvf project.tar.gz
 $ cd project
 $ git init
 $ git add . # include everything below ./ in the first commit:
-- 
1.6.1.36.g8430e
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  1. henrik@austad.usJan 5, 2009
  2. 1/2 Use capitalized names where appropriatehenrik@austad.us, Jan 5, 2009
  3. 2/2 Be consistent in switch usage for tarhenrik@austad.us, Jan 5, 2009
  4. Alexander PotashevJan 5, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2009

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