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Re: [PATCH] Fix usage of git-init and git-init-db documentation

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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May 24, 2011, 16:26 UTC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
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>> As it hasn't been advertised in the documentation (lucky us), it probably is not too
>> late to remove it.
>
> No objection if you remove it. I was probably thinking of git
> "symlink" but the traditional -l was taken, so -L.

I do not care deeply enough to remove it myself, but it is a bad taste to give a short variant to an option that hasn't yet proven to be frequently useful, especially to a command whose other command has no short variant.

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  1. Fix usage of git-init and git-init-db documentationMarc Pegon, May 24, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2011
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 24, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2011
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 24, 2011

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