From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:59:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git commit-tree man page
Message-ID: <m28vaw7yya.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAB9Jk9BMndLj_nHW=EQbSS96Gp5+5NA3Vyb0r-EfVd+OPyQhnA@mail.gmail.com>

Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> the man page of git commit-tree SYNOPSIS is:
>
>     git commit-tree <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] < changelog
>     git commit-tree [(-p <parent>)...] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F
> <file>)...] <tree>
>
> The second form is incorrect: the <tree> must be specified before the options.
> E.g.
>
> $ git commit-tree -m B 88f7dbd47
> fatal: Not a valid object name -m

This has been fixed in 1.7.11.4:

 * "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
   of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.

Andreas.

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