Re: Wrong help text on git status -h ?
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy <at> imag.fr> writes:
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> Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe+git <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> > Getting help for commit on 'git status -h' can't be right, can it ?
> > Or am I missing something?
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> I'd say: both.
Well, I can't be *that* wrong:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478814
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> git status could have been spelled "git commit --dry-run", they're
> actually the same command, but "git status" stops before launching the
> editor and doing the actual commit. So, they take the exact same set
> of options.
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> That said, in an ideal world, "git status -h" would mention that the
> commit message options are ignored with "git status".
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Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe+git@gmail.com>