Thanks Ilari for implementing my wishes :-)
On Thursday 21 January 2010 14:51:41 Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Johannes Sixt venit, vidit, dixit 21.01.2010 13:51:
> > Works for me, thank you very much!
> >
> > Junio, kindly squash in these speeling fixes in both patches:
> >
> > sed -i 's/impiled/implied/g' `git diff HEAD^ --name-only Documentation/`
> >
>
> Also, the option descriptions are kind of staccato English right now,
> lacking a few "the" here and there. Should we fix this or simply leave
> it at that?
Maybe the --branches, --tags and --remotes could be consolidated a
bit, as in the draft patch below. If --all took a pattern, it could
be included there too, but that would probably look too weird.
diff --git i/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt w/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 2bbb566..6fce919 100644
--- i/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ w/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -104,29 +104,26 @@ OPTIONS
Show all refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs`.
--branches[=pattern]::
- Show branch refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads`. If `pattern`
- is given, only branches matching given shell glob are shown.
- If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled.
-
--tags[=pattern]::
- Show tag refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags`. If `pattern`
- is given, only tags matching given shell glob are shown.
- If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled.
-
--remotes[=pattern]::
- Show tag refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes`. If `pattern`
- is given, only remote tracking branches matching given shell glob
- are shown. If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is
- impiled.
+ Show all branches, tags, or remote-tracking branches,
+ respectively (i.e., refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads`,
+ `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags`, or `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes`,
+ respectively).
++
+If a `pattern` is given, only refs matching the given shell glob are
+shown. If the pattern does not contain a globbing character (`?`,
+`\*`, or `[`), it is anchored by appending `/\*`.
+
+--glob=pattern::
+ Show all refs matching the shell glob pattern `pattern`. If
+ the pattern does not start with `refs/`, this is automatically
+ prepended. If the pattern does not contain a globbing
+ character (`?`, `\*`, or `[`), it is anchored by appending `/\*`.
--show-toplevel::
Show the absolute path of the top-level directory.
---glob=glob-pattern::
- Show refs matching shell glob pattern `glob-pattern`. If pattern
- specified lacks leading 'refs/', it is automatically prepended.
- If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled.
-
--show-prefix::
When the command is invoked from a subdirectory, show the
path of the current directory relative to the top-level
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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