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Re: [PATCH v2] gitcli: tweak "man gitcli" for clarity

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Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date
Nov 21, 2017, 21:47 UTC
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Kevin Daudt wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 04:27:59PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > No major changes, just some rewording and showing some variations of
> > general Git commands.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
> > index 9f13266a6..d690d1ff0 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
> > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ gitcli
> >  DESCRIPTION
> >  -----------
> >
> > -This manual describes the convention used throughout Git CLI.
> > +This manual describes the conventions used throughout Git CLI.
> >
> >  Many commands take revisions (most often "commits", but sometimes
> >  "tree-ish", depending on the context and command) and paths as their
> > @@ -32,32 +32,35 @@ arguments.  Here are the rules:
> >     between the HEAD commit and the work tree as a whole".  You can say
> >     `git diff HEAD --` to ask for the latter.
> >
> > - * Without disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess, but errors
> > -   out and asking you to disambiguate when ambiguous.  E.g. if you have a
> > + * Without a disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess, but can
> > +   error out, asking you to disambiguate when ambiguous.  E.g. if you have a
>
> 'Can' error out implies that it sometimes would not error out when
> there is ambiguity. Are there situation where git does not error out
> in that case?
  i would say (based on my limited knowledge) that if the heuristic
kicks in and works fine, then things will work. i think it's fair to
say that git "can" error out if the heuristic fails.
rday
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