Re: [PATCH] Add help details to git help command.

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 18, 2005, 10:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20050418102412.GJ1461@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200504172242.26326.elenstev@mesatop.com>

Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:42:26AM CEST, I got a letter where Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> told me that...

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> There's a patch at the bottom of this, so please look at that first before
> my reading my whining immediately below.
> 
> I'm having some troubles with git pull, so this is just an ordinary diff.
> Otherwise, I would have used the in-house diff command.
> 
> <troubles>
> patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
> </troubles>
> <more troubles>
> Tracked branch, applying changes...
> error: bad signature
> error: verify header failed
> read_cache: Invalid argument
> error: bad signature
> error: verify header failed
> error: bad signature
> error: verify header failed
> </more troubles>

read-tree $(tree-id) && update-cache --refresh

The directory cache format changed, so it causes this. I'm hoping to release 0.5 with good cache prepackaged Real Soon Now (tm). :-)

Note that then you will have to recover from the failed apply. If you had no local commits, it is easy - put that two IDs git pull told you to git diff and pipe it to git apply. If you had local commits, and have already GIT version with merge-base, do just git merge pasky and proceed with the merge. If you don't have merge-base, pass the first ID from git track to git merge with the -b argument.

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> This patch will provide the comment lines in the shell script associated
> with the command, cleaned up a bit for presentation.
> 
> BUGS: This will also print any comments in the entire file, which may
> not be desired.  If a command name and shell script filename
> do not follow the usual convention, this won't work, e.g. ci for commit.

Hey, those BUGS are the only slightly non-trivial thing on the whole thing! I could do this patch myself... ;-) Also, you don't want to print the first newline and the Copyright notices.

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