From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:43:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reword -M, when in `git log`s documention, to suggest --follow
Message-ID: <7v1vi8e49k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1262412622-sup-7473@utwig>

Alex Vandiver <alex@chmrr.net> writes:

> most common usage model.  It seems to me like the more correct fix
> would be to move the diff options to later in the file (after the
> options that are `git log`-specific), or to remove them entirely, and
> replace them with a pointer to git diff's options.

IIRC, the apporach we took earlier that people hated and resulted in the
current "include" approach was to say "It also takes many of options that
diff family of commands take".  So reordering may work better but dropping
and referring would not, I suspect.