Re: [PATCH] improve documentation for some commands that use pathspecs

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 3, 2015, 13:57 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AW0vj2SWpzocJpXkrgJB93x8Zb1p9YVQZE1SVh4G7COg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150331152224.GA16617@kitenet.net>

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> wrote:

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> After being surprised that git-ls-files expands pathspecs, here's a patch
> that would have saved me.
> ---
>  Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 9 +++++----
>  Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt  | 8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
> index e26f01f..f7a3039 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
>                 [--exclude-per-directory=<file>]
>                 [--exclude-standard]
>                 [--error-unmatch] [--with-tree=<tree-ish>]
> -               [--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>...]
> +               [--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<pathspec>...]

Just a note that "git ls-files -h" still says "<file>", from ls_files_usage in builtin/ls-files.c

-- 
Duy