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diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index 1819a5a185..7c709324ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ arguments. Here are the rules: A subcommand may take dashed options (which may take their own arguments, e.g. "--max-parents 2") and arguments. You SHOULD give dashed options first and then arguments. Some commands may - accept dashed options after you have already gave non-option + accept dashed options after you have already given non-option arguments (which may make the command ambiguous), but you should not rely on it (because eventually we may find a way to fix - these ambiguity by enforcing the "options then args" rule). + these ambiguities by enforcing the "options then args" rule). * Revisions come first and then paths. E.g. in `git diff v1.0 v2.0 arch/x86 include/asm-x86`, @@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ arguments. Here are the rules: they can be disambiguated by placing `--` between them. E.g. `git diff -- HEAD` is, "I have a file called HEAD in my work tree. Please show changes between the version I staged in the index - and what I have in the work tree for that file", not "show difference + and what I have in the work tree for that file", not "show the difference between the HEAD commit and the work tree as a whole". You can say `git diff HEAD --` to ask for the latter. * Without disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess, but errors - out and asking you to disambiguate when ambiguous. E.g. if you have a + out and asks you to disambiguate when ambiguous. E.g. if you have a file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to disambiguate. @@ -81,9 +81,6 @@ you will. Here are the rules regarding the "flags" that you should follow when you are scripting Git: - * It's preferred to use the non-dashed form of Git commands, which means that - you should prefer `git foo` to `git-foo`. - * Splitting short options to separate words (prefer `git foo -a -b` to `git foo -ab`, the latter may not even work). |