From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 19:41:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properly
Message-ID: <7vhai5ic2k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130514192909.GQ3657@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>> Should we mention in the -S documentation that temporary shell script
>> is the way to get multi-line input?
>
> No, because for almost everyone it isn't.
>
> An example in the EXAMPLES section including an aside that you might
> have to hit ^V to enter a tab could be useful, though.

Or document it as "for scripter's use", which it is.