From: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:19:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Be consistent in switch usage for tar
Message-ID: <20090105181950.GA5403@myhost>
In-Reply-To: <1231169137-32653-3-git-send-email-henrik@austad.us>

On 16:25 Mon 05 Jan     , henrik@austad.us wrote:
> From: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
> 
> tar handles switches with and witouth preceding '-', but the documentation should be

s/witouth/without

> 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

Btw, tar manpage uses dashed options in usage examples:

	tar -xvf foo.tar
		verbosely extract foo.tar
	...


>  $ cd project
>  $ git init
>  $ git add . # include everything below ./ in the first commit:
> -- 
> 1.6.1.36.g8430e