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Re: What's in git.git

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Sep 11, 2006, 22:14 UTC
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<20060911221411.GG23891@pasky.or.cz>
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Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:06:03PM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> >>  * git-rev-list: --stdin to feed list of <commits>; it is not clear from 
> >>    the manpage if one can use ^<commit>, and commit related options
> >>    and shortcuts like --not, <commit>..<commit>, <commit>...<commit>
> >>  * git-pack-objects: --revs to provide arguments to rev-list from stdin,
> >>    instead of list of objects. UNDOCUMENTED.
> > 
> > Time spent whining about it is better spent finding it out
> > yourself (UTSL) and writing it I suspect.  You'll learn how
> > things actually work while doing so ;-).
> 
> I still think it is better, easier and faster for someone who makes a new
> feature to document it too.

Especially since we _DON'T_ have good track record in other people quickly documenting newly introduced undocumented features.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Message 5 of 16 in “What's in git.git”
  1. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiSep 11, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2006
  4. Jakub NarebskiSep 11, 2006
  5. Petr BaudisSep 11, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2006
  7. pack-objects: document --revs, --unpacked and --all.Junio C Hamano, Sep 13, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiSep 18, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2006
  11. Jakub NarebskiSep 18, 2006
  12. Johannes SchindelinSep 18, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2006
  14. Jakub NarebskiSep 18, 2006
  15. Franck Bui-HuuSep 18, 2006
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2006

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