From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:05:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Removing -n option from git-diff-files documentation
Message-ID: <7vtzuzek42.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070427180523.GB4489@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> 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".