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[v2] show doc: redirect user to git log manual instead of git diff-tree

Message ID 20230920132731.1259-1-hanyang.tony@bytedance.com (mailing list archive)
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Commit 4fbe83fcd96cb49d2cdec3bc1660fe280d02c9a4
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Series [v2] show doc: redirect user to git log manual instead of git diff-tree | expand

Commit Message

Han Young Sept. 20, 2023, 1:27 p.m. UTC
While git show accepts options that apply to the git diff-tree command,
some options do not make sense in the context of git show.
The options of git show are handled using the machinery of git log.
The git log manual page is a better place to look into than git diff-tree
for options that are not in the git show manual page.

Signed-off-by: Han Young <hanyang.tony@bytedance.com>
---
Changes since v1:
* change wording to clarify not all options of `git log` are meant for `git show`

 Documentation/git-show.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Junio C Hamano Sept. 20, 2023, 3:52 p.m. UTC | #1
Han Young <hanyang.tony@bytedance.com> writes:

> While git show accepts options that apply to the git diff-tree command,
> some options do not make sense in the context of git show.
> The options of git show are handled using the machinery of git log.
> The git log manual page is a better place to look into than git diff-tree
> for options that are not in the git show manual page.
>
> Signed-off-by: Han Young <hanyang.tony@bytedance.com>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
> * change wording to clarify not all options of `git log` are meant for `git show`

Nice.  Thank you very much for not forgetting this topic.



>  Documentation/git-show.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt
> index 2b1bc7288d..fc46b3687b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-show.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ with --name-only).
>  
>  For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
>  
> -The command takes options applicable to the 'git diff-tree' command to
> +Some options that 'git log' command understands can be used to
>  control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
>  
>  This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt
index 2b1bc7288d..fc46b3687b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@  with --name-only).
 
 For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
 
-The command takes options applicable to the 'git diff-tree' command to
+Some options that 'git log' command understands can be used to
 control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
 
 This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.