Hello giters,
git-fetch.1 and git-pull.1 from the man branch bogusly display for me like this:
-a, --append
Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the existing contents of will
be overwritten.with man 2.5.1, GNU groff 1.18.1 (note the part about FETCH_HEAD is missing). This apparently changed in 5ca22945a:man1/git-fetch.1:
-Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the existing contents of \.git/FETCH_HEAD\ +Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the existing contents of +\.git/FETCH_HEAD\. Without this option old data in +\.git/FETCH_HEAD +will be overwritten\.
induced by 93d69d86: Refactored merge options into separate merge-options.txt.
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+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +-a, \--append:: + Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the + existing contents of `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. Without this + option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten. [...] --a, \--append:: - Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the - existing contents of $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD. Without this - option old data in $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD will be overwritten. I have no idea whether my man/groff is broken, or your asciidoc program, or the sources; although, the online copy seems to be ok: <http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fetch.html>. Cheers, and thanks for maintaining git, Ralf