Re: [PATCH 1/9] Documentation/git-range-diff: add missing notes options in synopsis

> Siddh Raman Pant <siddh.raman.pant@oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, May 20 2026 at 05:17:51 +0530, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > This has nothing to do with "external notes" topic, no?
> > 
> > Yeah, but since I added the command line flag I found it doesn't
> > mention the existing flags.
> > 
> > Fixing it in the "external notes" commit would be bad, so I put it
> > before that, since it also then provides a logical place to add new
> > flags.
> 
> What I meant was that it would have been better as a standalone
> patch that is unrelated to the (now) 8-patch topic for the external
> notes.  That way, it can move faster without waiting for the rest.
> 
> Unless this patch has complex semantic or textual conflicts that
> makes it easier to manage together with the external notes series,
> that is.  I think adding [--notes=...] to one existing line (this
> patch) and adding a new line with [--[no-]external] on it (the main
> part of the topic) can be done in parallel and it is not too much to
> ask for the integrator to merge them on the receiving end.