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Re: [PATCH 1/8] Removing -n option from git-diff-files documentation

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 29, 2007, 07:05 UTC
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
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> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 07:05:50AM CEST, Andrew Ruder wrote:
>> -n is not a short form of --no-index as the documentation
>> suggests.  Removing it from the documentation and command
>> usage string.
>
> Nevertheless, git-diff-files does accept -n, apparently to limit the
> number of outputted entries or something. Where is it documented?

It is not "accept" but more like "absorb and ignore". We (ab)use the option parser from revision traversal machinery when parsing "git-diff" options, but obviously options such as max-count that relate to commit limiting do not have any meaning to "git-diff-files" or "git-diff".

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Message 10 of 10 in “Removing -n option from git-diff-files documentation”
  1. 1/8 Removing -n option from git-diff-files documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 27, 2007
  2. 2/8 Document additional options for git-fetchAndrew Ruder, Apr 27, 2007
  3. 3/8 Update git-fmt-merge documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 27, 2007
  4. 4/8 Update git-grep documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 27, 2007
  5. 5/8 Update -L documentation for git-blame/git-annotateAndrew Ruder, Apr 27, 2007
  6. 6/8 Update git-http-push documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 27, 2007
  7. 7/8 Update git-local-fetch documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 27, 2007
  8. 8/8 Update git-http-fetch documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 27, 2007
  9. Petr BaudisApr 27, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2007

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