Re: Should "git apply --check" imply verbose?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 20, 2013, 19:07 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzjsc5ggp.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <5213B95D.3040409@windriver.com>

Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> writes:

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> OK, so given your feedback, how do you feel about a patch to the
> documentation that indicates to use "-v" in combination with the
> "--check" to get equivalent "patch --dry-run" behaviour?   If that
> had existed, I'd have not gone rummaging around in the source, so
> that should be good enough to help others avoid the same...

I do not think it is necessarily a good idea to assume that people who are learning "git apply" know how GNU patch works.

But I do agree that the description of -v, --verbose has a lot of room for improvement.

	Report progress to stderr. By default, only a message about the
	current patch being applied will be printed. This option will cause
	additional information to be reported.

It is totally unclear what "additional information" is reported at all.

Thanks.