git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Documentation for "git log --all" incorrect

From
FIFrancis Irving <francis@scraperwiki.com>
Date
Oct 29, 2014, 11:51 UTC
Message-ID
<20141029115134.GA33348@bat.dot-bit.org>
The help for "git log --all" says:
       --all
                  Pretend as if all the refs in refs/ are listed on
                  the command line as <commit>.

This makes no sense, as <commit> is not a documented valid command line parameter. These are the documented parameters:

        SYNOPSIS
               git log [<options>] [<revision range>] [[--] <path>...]

Even if it means <revision range>, which is my best guess, it still makes no sense as <revision range> cannot be a list of many refs.

I suspect both the documentation for "--all" and the documentation for the basic options are either incorrect, or confusing by using multiple names for the same thing.

I'm using git 1.9.2
Francis
Next: Jeff King
Message 1 of 2 in “Documentation for "git log --all" incorrect”
  1. Francis IrvingOct 29, 2014
  2. Jeff KingOct 29, 2014

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.