From: Thiago Farina Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:24:58 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Update the style of 'git-describe' command. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v3a6eo759.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Thiago Farina writes: > >>  $ git describe -h >> -usage: git-describe [options] * >> +usage: git describe [options] * > > I think the first half of this line is correct but the other half is not. > > $ git grep --color -c -e committish -- Documentation/ > Documentation/git-describe.txt:6 > Documentation/git-fast-import.txt:8 > Documentation/git-name-rev.txt:1 > Documentation/git-shortlog.txt:1 > Documentation/gitcli.txt:1 > Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt:1 > > $ git grep --color -c -e commit-ish -- Documentation/ > Documentation/git-rebase.txt:1 > Documentation/git.txt:2 I did this: git$ grep --color -n "commit-ish" *.c builtin-revert.c:29: "git revert [options] ", builtin-revert.c:34: "git cherry-pick [options] ", builtin-send-pack.c:368: * (3) if both new and old are commit-ish, and new is a remote.c:1388: /* Both new and old must be commit-ish and new is descendant of git$ grep --color -n "committish" *.c builtin-describe.c:13: "git describe [options] *", builtin-merge.c:885: * committish that is the same as HEAD there instead.