2015-08-29 4:21 GMT-06:00 Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org>: > Should the '<' stdin redirection be shown? > > It looks (at first glance) as if this gained a double '< <' at the beginning > of 'ref-list', rather than being a clean indication of the redirection. > Perhaps change 'ref-list' to 'ref-list-file' for a slight improvement in > clarity - this it's only occurance, and the redirection would best match a > file.
This syntax occurs in three other places in Git: git cat-file (--batch | --batch-check) [--follow-symlinks] < <list-of-objects> git check-attr --stdin [-z] [-a | --all | <attr>...] < <list-of-paths> git hash-object --stdin-paths < <list-of-paths> So if we need to say <ref-list-file> for clarity, we should also say <object-list-file> and <path-list-file> for these other commands. I think the most sane thing to do is to commit this patch as-is, and then someone can submit a separate patch to reword all four usage strings for increased clarity. -Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
