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Command-line options that lack documentation

From
Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date
Jul 21, 2011, 12:07 UTC
Message-ID
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Hi!
The following options lack (full) documentation in the manual pages:
git-am:
  --patch-format
  --rerere-autoupdate
git-bisect:
  next subcommand
git-commit:
  --null
  --interactive
git-notes copy:
  --for-rewrite
git-submodule update:
  --init
git-config:
  --local
git-reflog expire:
  -n, --dry-run
git-reflog delete:
  -n, --dry-run
git-repack:
  --quiet
git-cherry:
  --abbrev
git-fsck:
  -v
git-rerere:
  --rerere-autoupdate
git-verify-tag:
  -v, --verbose
git-svn init | fetch | clone | rebase | dcommit:
  --no-auth-cache
  --config-dir
git-svn fetch | clone | rebase | dcommit:
  --noMetadata
  --useSvmProps
  --useSvnsyncProps
  --log-window-size
  --no-checkout
git-svn fetch | rebase | dcommit:
  --fetch-all, --all
git-svn dcommit:
  -C, --copy-similarity
git-svn log:
  --color
  --pager
  --non-recursive
git-svn show-ignore | mkdirs:
  -r, --revision
git-svn commit-diff:
  -m, --message
  -F, --file
  -r, --revision
git-index-pack:
  --pack_header
git-merge-file:
  --marker-size
  --diff3
git-pack-objects:
  --reflog
  --keep-unreachable
  --unpack-unreachable
git-ls-files:
  --resolve-undo
git-send-pack:
  --mirror
  --stateless-rpc
  --helper-status
git-receive-pack:
  --advertise-refs
  --stateless-rpc
git-upload-pack:
  --advertise-refs
  --stateless-rpc
git-mailinfo:
  --no-inbody-headers

Furthermore, the fact that most commands take -h and --help is undocumented, but perhaps not of any real importance.

I would provide patches to the documentation, but most of these options are beyond my grasp of Git.

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  1. Nikolai WeibullJul 21, 2011
  2. Thomas RastJul 21, 2011
  3. Jens LehmannJul 21, 2011
  4. Nikolai WeibullJul 21, 2011

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