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Re: [PATCH] Document "commit --only".

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
May 7, 2007, 08:16 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
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> This looks really confusing.  This is the default _only_ if files are 
> specified on the command line.
>
> IMHO I'd rather remove the option from the synopsis and flag it as 
> scheduled for removal in the source instead.

I'm fine with this proposal. Next email will be a patch to do that (I'm not sure about the standard way to deprecate things in git, so I just added a warning when -o is used, feel free to improve it).

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Matthieu
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Message 6 of 10 in “Document the fact that commit -a is the way to go for simple operations”
  1. Document the fact that commit -a is the way to go for simple operationsMatthieu Moy, May 6, 2007
  2. Document git add -u introduced earlier.Matthieu Moy, May 6, 2007
  3. Added a reference to git-add in the documentation for git-update-indexMatthieu Moy, May 6, 2007
  4. Document "commit --only".Matthieu Moy, May 6, 2007
  5. Nicolas PitreMay 6, 2007
  6. Matthieu MoyMay 7, 2007
  7. Matthieu MoyMay 7, 2007
  8. Nicolas PitreMay 6, 2007
  9. Matthieu MoyMay 7, 2007
  10. Johannes SchindelinMay 7, 2007

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