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Re: [PATCH] man: git pull -r is a short for --rebase

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Aug 16, 2012, 22:36 UTC
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From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 9:23 PM
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> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>
>> I wasn't aware of the  "abbreviated options" capability. Is meant to
>> be in the man pages as I couldn't find it, or is it described
>> differently?
>
> $ git help gitcli
>
> is the closest that comes to mind.
>
> If it is not reachable from "git help git", we may want to sprinkle
> some more linkgit:gitfoo[$n] around the documentation sources.  I
> didn't check.
>

I eventually found a reference in the parse-options API to the fact that 'Long options may be abbreviated, as long as the abbreviation is unambiguous.'

It may be worth bringing some of those parse-options API basics bullets' forward into the gitcli page, if appropriate.

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  1. man: git pull -r is a short for --rebaseMiklos Vajna, Aug 16, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  3. Miklos VajnaAug 16, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  6. Philip OakleyAug 16, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  8. Philip OakleyAug 16, 2012
  9. Re* [PATCH] man: git pull -r is a short for --rebaseJunio C Hamano, Aug 17, 2012
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  13. Johannes SixtAug 16, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
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