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Re: Command-line options that lack documentation

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Jul 21, 2011, 12:34 UTC
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Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> 
> The following options lack (full) documentation in the manual pages:
[...]
> git-notes copy:
>   --for-rewrite

Intentional, cf. 6956f85 (notes: implement helpers needed for note copying during rewrite, 2010-03-12).

> Furthermore, the fact that most commands take -h and --help is
> undocumented, but perhaps not of any real importance.
It's actually in gitcli(7).
-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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