From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:17:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mergetool,difftool: Document --tool-help consistently
Message-ID: <CAHGBnuMCLkALCCAp1MiwQ1J+TuUhD=4k3LTGP2BMrp1LThb=HQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1344574365-5534-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:52 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:

> Add an entry for --tool-help to the mergetool documentation.
>
> Move --tool-help in the difftool documentation so that it is
> listed immediately after --tool so that it is easier to find.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>

Funny, I was doing almost the same thing in [1], so I obviously like
it. Back then Junio found it "Meh" because "it already is mentioned in
the
description of --tool above", but I still think all available command
line option should be listed as such.

> --- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
> @@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ variable `mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode` can be set to `true`.
>  Otherwise, 'git mergetool' will prompt the user to indicate the
>  success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited.
>
> +--tool-help::
> +       Print a list of diff tools that may be used with `--tool`.
> +

This should say "list of merge tools", however.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201913/focus=201922

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Sebastian Schuberth