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Re: document git blame --no-follow and git diff --no-follow

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 12, 2013, 06:23 UTC
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乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com> writes:
> Please document git blame --no-follow and git diff --no-follow
I do not think these (and blame/diff --follow) make any sense.

The ideal would be to reject the nonsense optoin at the command parser level. The second best is not to document it. The worst is to document them as nonsense.

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  1. 乙酸鋰Aug 11, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2013

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