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Re: [PATCH v2] doc: Add missing "-n" (dry-run) option to reflog man page

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Nov 22, 2017, 10:41 UTC
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"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
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>   i appreciate the need for brevity, but this just takes us back to,
> is there a standard for man pages, given how they bounce around all
> over the place?
>
>   i tossed in that missing "-n" option for "man git-reflog" since it
> was the *only* option missing from the SYNOPSIS,...
Don't we also take "-v" for "--verbose"?

I am not sure what you meant by "bounce around", but by adding "-n" without adding "-v", doesn't this patch worsen the situation by making the result even locally inconsistent?

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