From: Robert P. J. Day Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:12:02 GMT Subject: [PATCH] doc: remove explanation of "--" from man pages Message-ID: "man gitcli" already explains the purpose of the "--" syntax, so there is no value to a small subset of Git commands explaining that in their man pages. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- i tried this once before, and i'm going to try to push it through again ... it's pointless and inconsistent for less than a dozen man pages to explicitly explain the purpose of "--" unless all of the man pages do. as long as the "--" appears in the command SYNOPSIS, that should be more than adequate. diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index b700beaff..69d625285 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -180,11 +180,6 @@ for "git add --no-all ...", i.e. ignored removed files. bit is only changed in the index, the files on disk are left unchanged. -\--:: - This option can be used to separate command-line options from - the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken - for command-line options). - Configuration ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt index aa3b2bf2f..0ae2523e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt @@ -36,10 +36,6 @@ OPTIONS If `--stdin` is also given, input paths are separated with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character. -\--:: - Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following - arguments as path names. - If none of `--stdin`, `--all`, or `--` is used, the first argument will be treated as an attribute and the rest of the arguments as pathnames. diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt index 4d33e7be0..11ee76e7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt @@ -68,9 +68,6 @@ OPTIONS Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with NUL character instead of LF. -\--:: - Do not interpret any more arguments as options. - The order of the flags used to matter, but not anymore. Just doing `git checkout-index` does nothing. You probably meant diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 8c74a2ca0..cd9f362d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -334,9 +334,6 @@ changes to tracked files. Countermand `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable that is set to force each and every commit to be signed. -\--:: - Do not interpret any more arguments as options. - ...:: When files are given on the command line, the command commits the contents of the named files, without diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 18b494731..bac0b789c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -282,10 +282,6 @@ providing this option will cause it to die. Instead of searching tracked files in the working tree, search blobs in the given trees. -\--:: - Signals the end of options; the rest of the parameters - are limiters. - ...:: If given, limit the search to paths matching at least one pattern. Both leading paths match and glob(7) patterns are supported. diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 3ac3e3a77..c5cf3a488 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -176,9 +176,6 @@ Both the in the index ("i/") and in the working tree ("w/") are shown for regular files, followed by the ("attr/"). -\--:: - Do not interpret any more arguments as options. - :: Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other specified criteria are shown. diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt index 02676fb39..51f884c7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt @@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ files are passed as arguments 5, 6 and 7. OPTIONS ------- -\--:: - Do not interpret any more arguments as options. - -a:: Run merge against all files in the index that need merging. diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune.txt b/Documentation/git-prune.txt index 7a493c80f..39caa247a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-prune.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-prune.txt @@ -42,9 +42,6 @@ OPTIONS --verbose:: Report all removed objects. -\--:: - Do not interpret any more arguments as options. - --expire