[PATCH v2] Remove --allow-empty from the git-commit synopsis

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 7, 2010, 17:28 UTC
Message-ID: <1270661327-28078-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <w2zfabb9a1e1004070829ob9da47e6oacf2703129be9107@mail.gmail.com>

The --allow-empty option is too rarley used to warrant being displayed in the SYNOPSIS. It should only be mentioned in the main body of the documentation like --porcelain.

The issue was raised in the thread discussing the new --allow-empty-message option by Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:

    http://marc.info/?l=git&m=127039258902941
    http://marc.info/?l=git&m=127054334121604

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
I'd forgotten how the Git project likes rebasing :)

Here's a better patch that just cites the two relevant mailing list posts instead of the commit sha1.

 Documentation/git-commit.txt |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 64fb458..ed2cd95 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u<mode>] [--amend] [--dry-run]
 	   [(-c | -C) <commit>] [-F <file> | -m <msg>] [--reset-author]
-	   [--allow-empty] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>]
-	   [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status] [--]
-	   [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
+	   [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>] [--date=<date>]
+	   [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status] [--] [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
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