From: Quentin Nerden via GitGitGadget Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:37:39 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] Update git-clone doc: refer to long form of the options and list short form of the options first Message-ID: In-Reply-To: To make doc of git-clone easier to read, refer to the long version of the options (it is easier to guess what --verbose is doing than -v). Also: put the short options first, to match the doc of git-add, git-commit, git-clean, git-branch... Quentin Nerden (2): docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options docs: git-clone: list short form of options first Documentation/git-clone.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) base-commit: 8dca754b1e874719a732bc9ab7b0e14b21b1bc10 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-277%2Fkenden%2Fpatch-1-v2 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-277/kenden/patch-1-v2 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/277 Range-diff vs v1: -: ---------- > 1: d2f5540ea1 docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options 1: 0dd1b01769 ! 2: c562cf681f docs: update git-clone doc: refer to long options @@ -1,13 +1,10 @@ -Author: Quentin Nerden +Author: Quentin Nerden - docs: update git-clone doc: refer to long options + docs: git-clone: list short form of options first - To make the doc of git-clone easier to read, - refer to the long version of the options - (it is easier to guess what --verbose is doing than -v). - - Also: - put the short options first, to match the doc of git-add, git-commit, git-clean, git-branch... + List the short form of options (e.g.: '-l') before the long form (e.g. + '--local'). + This is to match the doc of git-add, git-commit, git-clean, git-branch... Signed-off-by: Quentin Nerden @@ -34,19 +31,6 @@ When the repository to clone is on the local machine, instead of using hard links, automatically setup `.git/objects/info/alternates` to share the objects -@@ - If these objects are removed and were referenced by the cloned repository, - then the cloned repository will become corrupt. - + --Note that running `git repack` without the `-l` option in a repository -+Note that running `git repack` without the `--local` option in a repository - cloned with `-s` will copy objects from the source repository into a pack - in the cloned repository, removing the disk space savings of `clone -s`. --It is safe, however, to run `git gc`, which uses the `-l` option by -+It is safe, however, to run `git gc`, which uses the `--local` option by - default. - + - If you want to break the dependency of a repository cloned with `-s` on @@ same repository, and this option can be used to stop the borrowing. @@ -63,13 +47,6 @@ Run verbosely. Does not affect the reporting of progress status to the standard error stream. - --progress:: - Progress status is reported on the standard error stream -- by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q -+ by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless `--quiet` - is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the - standard error stream is not directed to a terminal. - @@ When multiple `--server-option=