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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-08-22 12:55:29 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-08-22 12:55:29 -0700
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Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.12-70-g851f7
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@@ -655,6 +655,17 @@ when you give a revision parameter to a command, make sure the parameter is
if you happen to have a file called <tt>HEAD</tt> in the work tree.
</p>
</li>
+<li>
+<p>
+many commands allow a long option "--option" to be abbreviated
+ only to their unique prefix (e.g. if there is no other option
+ whose name begins with "opt", you may be able to spell "--opt" to
+ invoke the "--option" flag), but you should fully spell them out
+ when writing your scripts; later versions of Git may introduce a
+ new option whose name shares the same prefix, e.g. "--optimize",
+ to make a short prefix that used to be unique no longer unique.
+</p>
+</li>
</ul></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_enhanced_option_parser">ENHANCED OPTION PARSER</h2>
@@ -774,7 +785,7 @@ information.</p></div>
<div id="footnotes"><hr /></div>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 2012-05-02 15:00:44 PDT
+Last updated 2012-08-22 12:54:47 PDT
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</div>
</body>