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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-10-16 11:27:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-10-16 15:27:52 -0700 |
| commit | 33e8fc87407505c3a96792fc47189d57b97b34c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 19f879dcf9af22e72f1d0c61411d661bb77bf4d6 /Documentation/git-hash-object.txt | |
| parent | 3c3d3f629a6176b401ebec455c5dd59ed1b5f910 (diff) | |
| download | git-33e8fc87407505c3a96792fc47189d57b97b34c3.tar.gz | |
usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file
The synopsys text and the usage string of subcommands that read list
of things from the standard input are often shown like this:
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes>
This is problematic in a number of ways:
* The way to use these commands is more often to feed them the
output from another command, not feed them from a file.
* Manual pages outside Git, commands that operate on the data read
from the standard input, e.g "sort", "grep", "sed", etc., are not
described with such a "< redirection-from-file" in their synopsys
text. Our doing so introduces inconsistency.
* We do not insist on where the output should go, by saying
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes> > <output>
* As it is our convention to enclose placeholders inside <braket>,
the redirection operator followed by a placeholder filename
becomes very hard to read, both in the documentation and in the
help text.
Let's clean them all up, after making sure that the documentation
clearly describes the modes that take information from the standard
input and what kind of things are expected on the input.
[jc: stole example for fmt-merge-msg from Jonathan]
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-hash-object.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-hash-object.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt index 0c75f3b610..814e74406a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin [--literally]] [--] <file>... -'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters] < <list-of-paths> +'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ OPTIONS Read the object from standard input instead of from a file. --stdin-paths:: - Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. + Read file names from the standard input, one per line, instead + of from the command-line. --path:: Hash object as it were located at the given path. The location of |