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Re: [PATCH] Do not call built-in aliases from scripts

From
John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Date
Jun 27, 2013, 18:02 UTC
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: [snip]

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>> diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
>> index 9f44509..ad67194 100755
>> --- a/git-am.sh
>> +++ b/git-am.sh
>> @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ s,signoff       add a Signed-off-by line to the commit message
>>  u,utf8          recode into utf8 (default)
>>  k,keep          pass -k flag to git-mailinfo
>>  keep-non-patch  pass -b flag to git-mailinfo
>> -keep-cr         pass --keep-cr flag to git-mailsplit for mbox format
>> -no-keep-cr      do not pass --keep-cr flag to git-mailsplit
>> independent of am.keepcr
>> +keep-cr         pass --keep-cr flag to git mailsplit for mbox format
>> +no-keep-cr      do not pass --keep-cr flag to git mailsplit
>> independent of am.keepcr
>>  c,scissors      strip everything before a scissors line
>>  whitespace=     pass it through git-apply
>>  ignore-space-change pass it through git-apply
>
>> As you were saying yourself, we tell users to prefer the "git foo"
>> form, so we should also do so in the "git am" option help, IMHO.
>
> What does the above change to the options-help have anything to do
> with that theme?  It does not seem to say anything about "git foo"
> vs "git-foo"?

I initially missed it too, but `git-mailsplit` changed to `git mailsplit` in the help. Now that I look at it more, I see that `git-mailinfo` was missed and there's a `git-apply` towards the bottom. So I'm not sure it's helping the consistency argument.

-John
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  1. Do not call built-in aliases from scriptsSebastian Schuberth, Jun 27, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2013
  3. Sebastian SchuberthJun 27, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2013
  5. John SzakmeisterJun 27, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2013
  8. Sebastian SchuberthJun 28, 2013
  9. John KeepingJun 27, 2013
  10. Johannes SchindelinJun 27, 2013
  11. Sebastian SchuberthJun 28, 2013
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