The --allow-empty option is too rarley used to warrant being displayed
in the SYNOPSIS. It should only be mentioned in the main body of the
documentation like --porcelain.
The issue was raised in the thread discussing the new
--allow-empty-message option by Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>:
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=127039258902941
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=127054334121604
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
---
I'd forgotten how the Git project likes rebasing :)
Here's a better patch that just cites the two relevant mailing list
posts instead of the commit sha1.
Documentation/git-commit.txt | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 64fb458..ed2cd95 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u<mode>] [--amend] [--dry-run]
[(-c | -C) <commit>] [-F <file> | -m <msg>] [--reset-author]
- [--allow-empty] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>]
- [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status] [--]
- [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
+ [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>] [--date=<date>]
+ [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status] [--] [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
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1.7.0.4.298.gc81d
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